The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 5, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1898. _.JUNE 5. 188 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. e A e e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2!7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL..... +eee-...ONe year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE +eseess..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE......... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE --Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE.. Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. SRANCH OFFICES—527 Mentgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1841 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 830 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Columbla—* The New Domiioa Calfornia—Hopkins Trans-Oceanic Star Specialty Co. Aleazar—~The Master of Ceremontes. Morosco's—*The Bottom of the Sea Tivoli—"The Poster.” Orpheum—Vaudeville The Chutes—Zoo0, Vaudeville and * Departure of the P eking. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Sutro Baths—Swimming, E] Campo—Music. dancing, boating, fishing, every Sunday Coursing—Inglesid e Coursing Park. Coursing—At Union Coursing Parlk. tchueizen Park, near San Rafael—Picenie to-day. AUCTION SALES. ch . June 6, Bar Fixtures, etc. By_Basch ! at 821 Sutter str. at 11 o’clock. HEROES OF THE NAVY. S the war progresses the fact becomes evident that American heroes of the sea do not belong | alone to tradition. The men on our ships to- day are as brave as the men who fought with Paul Jones. The sailors with Sampson and Schley are ready to give up life for country and honor. Where danger calls they are anxious to go. In all the annals of battle there has been no record of nobler courage than that of the men who on board the Merrimac sailed to what seemed certain death. They did not have the inspiration of cannon roar, they were not carried away by mad excitement; the possibility that they would survive to tell the story of their own daring did not occur to them. “Greater love hath no man than this, than to lay | down his life for his friends. Such was the love which buoyed the sailors of the " Merrimac as they steamed away toward hostile guns, to waters known to be deadly with torpedoes. Each | instant as they advanced they must have expected | the final crash. Yet the eight brave men were chosen | from thousands who clamored for the chance to place bon the altar of their country. Tlxe_\" loved their country, were eager to die for it. What | people shall stand against a heroism which thus im- | pels men willingly to die? No matter what the war may bring forth, what other heroes may have opportunity to grave deep in | the hearts of their countrymen the knowledge that our navy is filled with patriots, these eight men of the | Merrimac must be given a chapter in the proud his- tory to be written of the first unselfish ever | waged | Congress will give to Constructor Hobson and the | volunteers who went with him a medal apiece. The | token will be handed down in every family, and with just pride will be told the story it commemorates. There should be a more practical recognition. It | ‘would be well to have the medals, but in addition | there ought to be a pile of yellow disks, the good gold coin of this country, which after all is the most prac- tical form by which: the gratitude and admiration of the country can find expression. G Tlie_ names of the men, excepting as to Hobson | ‘hiinself; are as yet unknown, but they will soon be | familiar to the world. Hobson is not a line officer. It hds been the habit of line officers to regard those of his class as non-combatants and to look upon them with at least implied contempt. They can do | -this no.more. In the time of supreme peril it was a “non-combatant” who first said “I will go.” Dewey at Manila recognized the bravery of Montijo. The Spanish at Santiago recognized the valor of our intrepid eight. The horrors of war are touched by such exhibitions with a gleam of light. WHERE CUBAN BREAD IS BUTTERED. /E\ In all probabil- | is groundless, and ‘yet - ity it the meager chance | that it may be correct is worth consideration. - When determination was reached to drive the Span- ish jrom Cuba there was no thought on the part of anybody in authority of selfish motive. The only ob- . Ject was to give to the Cubans the government for . the establishment of which they had fought so bravely and so long. If the Cubans know on which side their bread is buttered they will accept the help tendered and listen to none of the Spanish tales of duplicity. For if they present a hostile front to the Americans they will lose all they have staked in the game, save the blessing of being subject to a civilized power in- stead of a semi-barbarous one. " There is nothing which can stop the onward sweep | _of-the armies of the United States. If the Cubans gather under the stars and stripes the island wrested from Spain will belong to them. If they fail in this | the “stable government” promised will be the govern- ment of Uncle Sam. This circumstance is something for the Cubans to think about, and if they have no the sense to draw correct conclusions, surely they have not sense to govern themselves. It would be well for them to also bear in mind that there is in this country a large and growing party | + which does not care for the welfare of Cuba and sees in the destruction of the Maine the solitary pretext for war. This party has no patience with Cuba, and regards the conquest there as bringing to America all the spoil, as the legitimate fruit of conquest. The | act of Cubans in turning against the United States would be welcomed as sweeping away the last ves- tige of excuse for fighting the battles of an alien people. If the people prove ungrateful the party now opposed to them will become dominant and the Cu- ban flag disappear from Cuba along with the flag of Castile. war MONG the reports which are current is one | that the Cubans are dissatisfied with the Amer- | ican plan of invading Cuba. | The Marietta lacks much in the matter of size as compared with the Oregon, but she seems to be some pumpkins herself. | For a man who so many times has been “completely cut off,” Blanco seems to keep a large number of fool remarks in eirculation, | marts of trade. THE UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION. T seems to be demonstrated that the white-winged ldove of peace and the American eagle don't fly together, after war is declared, unless the dove has transportation inside the eagle. The American branch of the Peace Union has been evicted from its quarters in Independepce Hall, Phil- adelphia. The president, Mr. Love, addressed to the Queen Regent a letter on April 21 in which he sug- gested that she grant independence to Cuba as a means of averting war. But he accompanied this ad- vice with rather excessive compliments to her Majesty and her people. Perhaps he sugar-coated his in- dependence pill rather thickly for diplomatic reasons, but any way the sugar, as they say in the Custom- house, seemed to be the component of chief value, and the letter came’ near enough violating the statute against holding correspondence with the enemy in time of war to justify an outbreak against the Peace Union and all its works. For the sake of the work of an international or- ganization to promote peace in the world it is to be regretted that President Love did not administer his benevolent counsel a little earlier in the affair, before war was on. He would then have saved himself and the union from a position which will tend to discredit its work in the future. The misfortune of such organizations is that they are possessed by too many dreamers and controlled by inopportune people. In the hands of: practical men and women the Universal Peace Union has a workin the enlargement of policies that make a breach of the world's peace less likely. The international rule that one country cannot be made the mere prey of another, that war must have cause and provocation, which rule has grown up with diplomacy, has very much lessened the number and likelihood of wars. Formerly a nation which had improved peace by amassing the wealth that is the fruit of uninterrupted industry was sure to be the prey of any predatory | nation strong enough to descend upon it, and its wealth was looted when it had offered no cause of war. The next advance made was in arbitration of causes of war when one nation had provoked another. Before an appeal to arms a way was offered by ar- bitration for the honorable recession from a position which without such means of honorable withdrawal would make a fight necessary. In its platform of principles the International Peace Union maps out for itself a policy in line with diplomacy and arbitration, and practical men oper- ating its activities on that platform would be helpful to governments. In its recent action, however, the American branch of the union seems to have merely succeeded in exasperating rather than in soothing public sentiment, and has put its whole purpose at a very great disadvantage. We hope that the suggestion will not be taken as the expression of a too militant spirit if we advise the Peace Union that one way to secure peace is to represent truthfully to the people of ‘nations that are edging toward war their respective conditions as to a Spain has been kept in woeful ignorance of public sentiment in the United States. and in equal darkness as to our military resources sure war footing. and capacity to strike crushing blows if we are forced | to do so. If President Love had requested the Span- ish vice-president of the Peace Union, Arturo de Marceartu, to inform his people as to the facts exist- ing in the United States, the extent of our power, that we have 10,000,000 men of military age and fighting capacity, while Spain has a total population of only 18000000, it is quite possible that a more reasonable temper would have come to those hot- headed people, and instead of urging their Govern- ment to war by threats of domestic revolution they might have supported the Queen Regent in the very recover from the impairment it has suffered. In the heat which the episode has engendered it is to be hoped that the American branch of the Peace Union will pass into better control and its usefulness recover from the impairment it has suffered. Meantime, though the white-winged dove of peace iz not laying any eggs just now, it is not well to en- courage everybody in taking a pot shot at her. ro———————— THE SUMMER GIRL. ITH each returning June the civilized world Wfinds its attention distracted from business by the appearance along the streets of that vision of radiant loveliness known as the summer girl. It is in vain that sober common sense insists the beauty is but the old winter girl in new drapery. The senses, intoxicated with the delight of her joyous presence, will not have it so. The charming creature in the shirt waist has nothing suggestive of old girls about her. She is a new creation. A miracle so startling in her novelty that we might almost call her fresh. In bygone Junes the summer girl has shown her- self but fleetingly in the city, spreading her dainty wings here only to fly away to the seashore, the mountain heights or other idyllic spots far from the She has revealed herself on the busy streets only to let men see her beautiful new clothes o that they might be beguiled to follow her to places where there is no work, nor any toil, but only picnics by day and dances by night and fair flirtations that | end with one man at one place at one hour only to begin again at another hour in another place with another fellow. 4 In this June, however, the summer girl is a changed creature. As lovely as ever are the gar- ments of her and as winning as ever is her smile, but her feet are not hastening from the city this year, and it seems that her thoughts are not of flirtations. She has become a soldier of the Red Cross. Her heart is full of patriotism. Her hands are full of work. She is as bright and inspiring as the starry banner itself, and the feeling she excites ic one of blessing as well as of admiration. All America honors the summer girl. California | looks upon her own with especial pride and reverence, Nowhere is the summer girl more beautiful in any year, and nowhere is she doing better work this June. The ornament of our streets, the charm of our lives, the embodied spirit of patriotism and loyalty, she is ovelier in her Red Cross work than ever at mid- ay picnic or midnight dance. God bless her. The Prince of Wales gives this country his sym- pathy, but does not want Spain to be damaged more | than necessary. A great many other people seem to feel the same way, but if Spain will insist on getting in front of our guns sympathy won’t save her bruises, e Jim Parker of Arizona remarked on the scaffold that he was getting something he did not deserve. However little truth there may have been in the re- mark, it certainly created a better impression than a promise to meet spectators of the affair in heaven. While the wisdom of the Government in landing mules here from Baltimore at a cost of $231 may not be questioned, we cbnfeg to inability to discern that these mules can pull any more or sing any better than the California article at a third the price. The weather sharp promises even hotter days than the two which have just perspired their way into his- tory. There have been occasions on which he has guessed badly, and there will be a general hope that this will be another of them, NO JUSTIFICATION FOR TYRANNY: HE morning organ of the Democratic faction Twhich has captured the organization of the party in this city justifies the action of the Demo- cratic State Committee on the ground that it was ne- cessary in order to beat Boss Rainey. It declares that the recent elections have shown Rainey’s strength to comprise not over 2000 votes, and in order to protect the other 30,000 Democrats in San Francisco against the boss it says the Democratic State Committee has provided for an appointed State delegation and an appointed municipal convention. This argument is the weakest that has ever been in- troduced for the purpose of sustaining tyranny. If the premises laid down are admitted there is no poli- tical outrage possible of perpetration which may not be justified. The liberties of the people in the future may be filched from them upon the theory that they are being protected from some malign influence which they are unable to meet and overcome. The argument is essentially paternal. It rests broadly upon the proposition that a small body of men know better what the people want than the people know them- selves. The organ says that its Republican contemporaries are too solicitous in this matter. It intimates broadly that the interest which we are taking in the matter has a selfish purpose, which is to force a Democratic primary and throw the party organization into the hands of the Democratic bosses. But the argument which the organ has produced to sustain this theory is as weak as the other one just referred to. It pre- supposes that 2000 Democrats led by Boss Rainey can overwhelm 30,000 Democrats led by Mayor Phelan and Colonel Sullivan. The absurdity of this become apparent the moment it is stated. The principle upon which Republican opposition to the Democratic oligarchy which is now being formed reposes ought to be plain even to a newspaper organ engaged in filching the rights of its party voters. We do not object to the Democratic party being run in the manner proposed—it will be the more easily beaten with McNab, Gould and Alfordincomplete charge—but we have a right in the interest of all the | people to protest against such political methods. They are unDemocratic and unAmerican, and in call- ing attention to them_ we merely desire to apprise the great body of the Democratic party of the fact that they have fallen into the hands of tyrants and must vote the Republican ticket in order to be free. THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH. ATE advices from Australia are to the effect L that the plans drawn up by the federal con- vention for the proposed union of the colonies have been well received, and the prospects are that the long desired federation will be speedily accom- | plished. Even in New South Wales, where the oppo- sition has hitherto been strongest, the sentiment in favor of union is growing. In a recent issue the Sydney Herald, after review- ing the policy of the opposition, said: “Either the foes of federation have no counter scheme which is not condemned in the mere stating, or, having such, they prefer to put forward schemes which are at once seen to be hopelessly impossible. So far as appears, the sole political ideal of the anti-federalists is a state of provincial isolation for all time.” The federalists propose that the title of the new union shall be “The Commonwealth of Australia.” This has a republican sound. Canada calls herself | a dominion. That term is suggestive of royal sov- ereignty. The Australians, in view of the fact that their union is to be in form at least subject to the empire of Great Britain, did not venture to assume the title “republic,” but it is clear they mean that, for the title they have chosen carries the idea by impli- cation. The difficulties in the way of Australian union have been due to questions of colonial sovereignty over lands, rivers, railways and public works. According to the Sydney Herald these difficulties have been overcome and all the rights of the colonies have been carefully safeguarded by the convention. This leaves the opposition no substantial arguments against the union, and they are compelled to. fight solely for the preservation of the existing order of things. It is, therefore, essentially a battle against progress and is doomed to defeat. In framing the federal constitution the convention has borrowed from both the United States and Can. ada. The various colonies are to take the title “states,” as in this country. The parliament is to con- sist of two houses. Six Senators will represent each state in the upper chamber, while the lower house will be modeled after our House of Representatives, being chosen on the basis of popular representation. The nominal chief executive will be a Governor- General appointed by the British sovereign, whose authority in the commonwealth he will represent, but the real executive will be a Ministry representing the federal parliament. In case of a deadlock between the two houses of parliament, such as sometimes occurs in this country between the House and the Senate, or between parliament and the Governor- General, the constitution provides for a joint assem- bly of both houses which can dispose of the issue in dispute by a three-fifths vote. With the adoption of the new constitution Aus- tralia will enter upon a new era in its history, and the effects of the development of the commonwealth will sooner or later be felt in the larger politics of the world. Even at present the Australian colonies are hardly subject to Great Britain. They regulate their own commerce without regard to her interests and maintain over all their affairs a virtual local sov- ereignty. With the intreased power which will inevitably come from the union there will develop an Australian patriotism of larger aspirations than the colonists have known. It is not likely they will desire separa- tion from the empire, for they feel no friction from it to disturb their sentiments of loyalty, but they will certainly insist upon having some voice in imperial affairs. The establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia may therefore prove to be a long stride toward the accomplishment of the much talked of fed- eration of the empire. e S If the Grand Jury shall succeed in getting the con- tractors for the Hall of Justice to do the work agreed upon that body will be embalmed in grateful remem- brance. It will be recalled that this bui]rfing was to have been completed last fall, that there was no ex- cuse for delay, that the contractors should have been fined for their neglect and the contract taken away from them. Instead of this they were granted an ex- tension of a year. As they are now progressing there is no doubt that at least ten similar extensions will be necessary. That the conduct both of Bateman Brothers and the Supervisors has been outrageous is a mild statement, and that it affords a basis for the jury to work upon there can be no question. —_— To be sure Wanamaker has got the worst of it politically, but he has been in a deal in Govern- ment shoes which nets him $70,000 worth of comfort in this dark hour. The only trouble with the plan to unfurl over Morro Castle the largest: American flag ever made is | that the castle may not be there at the critical hour. | R RN R AR SRR RNERRRRRBRE WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. P By HENRY JAMES. RN RN R R RRRNNN IR RN RRNS A gentleman connected with the Gridley Herald stilll persists that I have a habit of abusing the country editor. I must beg the privilege, not only of saying that he is in error, but that I wish I were myself a country editor. Then any city jay who wanted to poke fun at me could do so and wel- come. city newspaper men would accuse him of lack of ability to use the English language with excellent effect he cer- tainly hds made an underestimate either of their judgment or of his own prowess in the matter of words. YR Before this article shall reach print the situation may be changed, but at the present writing I confess tr lack of enthusiasm either as to Sampson or Schley. They seem to have expended considerable energy, not to mention coal and ammunition, in accomplishing nothing. Cervera is on the wrong side of the proposition, and doubtless will sooner or later be compelled to run up a white flag or go to the bottom. It may be remembered that the Maine went to the bottom, although this is a forbidden topic by the code of the Peace Society. However, while re- fraining from mention of it, I recall it distinctly, and it serves to ease the pang which might have been created by the thought that so clever an ad- miral as Cervera is occupying a pre- carfous position between several devils and an expanse of deep, blue sea. Of course Cervera will be defeated. He represents a cause already doomed. The Americans have the better ships, the better guns and the better princi- ple for which to fight. But I wish they might borrow some of the Cervera cunning. it wloe I observe that the Hamburg-Ameri- can Packet Company has in defense of itself invaded such proper columns as those of the Boston Transeript and is sending copies of that paper, duly blue- venciled, to the public generally. Doubtless there is virtue in the Ham- burg-American outfit, but the quality of it displayed in selling ships to Spain when the purpose was hostile to the United States does not, even with the indorsement of the Boston Transcript, appeal to me as indicating a lofty or, I may say, decent, state of patriotism. The line in question has made money from American patronage. It does not deserve to make another cent. If any American contemplating a trip abroad patronizes this line I will call into question® his standing as a loyal citi- zen. The Hamburg-Americans may woo and win the approval of all Bos- ton, but out this way the influence of Boston is not markedly strong. It may be an authority on beans, but as to de- votion to the flag I prefer a town in which editorial space is not to be pur- chased. LR Last Sunday a number of rich men were kind enough to let the world know the fashion by which others may grow to be like unto them. All tkrough the articles ran the assumption that every- body desires to be the possessorof a pile of useless gold. Certainly the money a man has beyond that he can use, if not. for himself, then for the better- ment of his fellows, represents an ab- solute waste. It stands for care and futile toil, responsibility, burden. The greater the hoard grows, the more ap- palling the certainty that in the un- equal division of wealth one instance of opulence means countless instances of the pinching of poverty. There is no scheme by which all may grow rich, albeit they who by scrimping, or through what they consider good luck, have managed to do so, will gravely lay down a method as infallible. Some are born without the instinct either of thrift or of miserliness. They have not and never can acquire shrewdness. They are foredoomed to struggle for bread. There is not in existence enough wealth to give to each a share. The astute among us absorb it and then tell the rest how the trick may be done. I am not ralling at the existence of great fortunes, but I object to having people drag out miserable lives in pur- suit of a prize which is seldom to be attained, and having been reached brings with it no happiness and only such distinction as may be embodied in a lofty headstone, lyingly inscribed. ‘When a man of fortune, the basis of which he earned, employs it in the con- struction of factories or transportation lines or material development, he be- comes to this extent a public benefac- tor. Certainly he is a necessity. With- out him great works would languish, for it is hard to imagine an ideal state in which property would be held in common and administered for the ben- efit of all. Among the gentlemen quoted, not an individual proclaimed a rule other than the one laid down by the farmer to his boy when the lad had asked how to get rich. “Work like hell and never spend a cent,” the old man had responded. Such is the substance of Huntington’s remarks. I cannot think of a reason why a sane man should aspire to Huntington's place in the world. He is generally regarded as unscruvnulous, and the hes- itancy about telling him so is not not- able. He says, “Be honest.” But where would he have been now had he applied this to his own acts? Then there is Carnegie. One naturally thinks of the aerated armor plate he sold the Government, and turns a deaf ear to his counsel. As to W. W. Astor, he has no business to give advice. His ordinary indulgences would be the wildest extravagances to any but a many-time millionaire. I cannot go through the whole list, nor indeed is this necessary. The man who gets rich, grossly and inexcusably rich, does not do so by his own efforts. He does it by getting the benefit of the labor of others, by preying on the common necessity. Had Adam secured a sit- uation 6000 years ago at $10 a day, worked Sundays and holidays and lost no time, never spending a cent for hoard, fig leaves, car fare or anything else, he would now have in bank $21,- 900,000, possibly a half of the Hunting- ton accumulation, possibly a quarter of the amount the pious Rockefeller has squeezed out of the race. It is to be regretted that Shakespeare died with- out having left a formula for the writ- ing of plays and that Milton and Ho- mer neglected to bless posterity with some certain rule by which anybody competent to grasp a pen could build deathless poetry by the rod. For it is just as sensible to suppose that all of us can be Shakespeares and Miltons and Homers as that we can study the methods of the rich, and after the manner of them heap up treasure. Any- If the Herald man thinks that. how the scheme is not worth trying. To me there is no more wretched and despicable figure than the miser, count- ing his beloved coin, or the Russell Sage, his store swollen by usury and the ruin of other men, standing almost at the edge of the grave and joying to see grow the unclean pelf he cannot take with him. e alie Possibly there was no one so sur- prised at the prompt acquittal of Wal- ler as Waller himself. Had he sus- pected that his trial would not only be brief, but result in a complete vin- dication for him, there seems a prob- ability that he would have sought it rather than made a technical fight such as the public has learned to accept as a virtual plea of guilty. I do not sup- pose the general opinion concerning Waller has been changed by the ver- dict. I have not the honor of know- ing the gentlemen who had the dis- tinction of serving as jurymen. I would not say they were “fixed,” for this would be to imply corruption on their part, which heaven forbid to be true. But neither would 1 go so far as to say they were not “fixed,” for such things have happened, and I can im- agine no occasion on which they would be more apt to happen than at the trial of a member of the San Francisco Board of Education, charged with so- liciting a bribe. 3 Jaitie When the first regiment of regulars marched away from San Francisco the multitudes who turned out to watch them go noticed a grizzled veteran who rode at the head of the column. This was Colonel Evan Miles, the modest hero of many a battle, a man who had been thanked by Governors and Con- gressmen because of his courage and diplomacy which had saved their peo- ple from the marauding Indians, who fought through the Civil War and fought well, and who ever since has been in the service of his country. The war with Spain has been in progress, or rather, has been in existence, more than a month. In this time other of- ficers have been advanced, nobodies, and the sons of somebodies have been taken from clvil life, in which they have been conspicuous failures, and in- vested with title and authority. I re- gret to say that Miles has been over- | looked. That he has no pull is evi- dent. If in his heart he has wished for promotion he has depended upon his record to secure it, and records do not seem to count. Perhaps it is not seemly to find fault with the adminis- tration. I do not doubt that the ad- ministration, like the Texas orchestra, | is doing the best it knows how. But when it picks up a Russell Harrison, a Jim Blaine or a Fred Grant and puts straps upon their shoulders, while it permits Colonel Evan Miles to plod along unrewarded, I would like to call it down much harder than it is my power to do. Perhaps Miles is under the disadvantage of having the same name as the head of the army, but to permit this circumstances to make any difference would indicate on the part of General Miles a petty jealousy which I hesitate to credit him. Surely 'the army could stand two Generals Miles of different grades, as well as two Gen- erals Otls. . % e The pleasing information reaches me that Attorney Kowalsky is not happy over the few brief remarks I made con- cerning his numerousness on the occa- sion of Remenyl's death. If I recall the circumstances correctly, the remarks were not designed to promote his joy. Kowalsky undoubtedly has his uses, but it does not seem to me that the ad- ministration of estates is one of them. B LR Just at present there appears to be a fear that Cervera is on his way to the Philippines and that the famous San- tiago bottle is filled mostly with water. 1 do not see why there should be any | A gentle- sensation approaching fear. man named Dewey is at the Philippines and he has a pretty good fleet himself, good enough certainly to get away with anything Cervera has under his com- mand. If Cervera try to enter Manila harbor he will be discouraged at the initial attempt, and so thoroughly that if his friends want to give him Chris- tian burial they will first be obliged to fish for him. It could reasonably be wished that those two men of letters, George Alfred Townsend and Edward Cahill, would pair on the writing of poetry and stick to prose. Of the latter Townsend can write much and Cahill write well. But the little birds which, sleeping in the souls of them, were awakened by the sound of martial music can neither sing worth a continental darn. ST e The San Rafael man who tore the tongue from a horse which, in protest against underfeeding and overloading, had been rash enough to balk, will go to jail for four months and pay a fine of $250. A balky horse is certainly an irritation to the race and generally the direct fault of it. This can be no ex- | cuse for the wretch guilty of the cru- elty. The law makes no adequate pro- vision for such malefactors. He de- serves to be tarred and feathered, tied to a post and whipped, and then hooted from the haunts of men. But all this, however commendable, is not practi- cable. I call to the attention of the of- fender the utility and beauty of suicide. & IR TIT Question has been raised as to whether the possession of colonies by | the United States would be “constitu- tional.” It will be remembered that a similar question is raised in relation to everything else. I have not the hap- piness to be a lawyer. As a citizen respecting the constitution and realiz- ing the circumstances under which it came into being, I am in favor of amending ' it so as to fit conditions which did not at that time exist. The constitution I take to be the formu- lated will of the people. An individual can change his mind and as great a privilege should inhere to the collée- tive minds of a commonwealth. It is not clear that our forbears knew of a time when we might want to take and keep the Philippines. Had they done so, they might have made provision for it. I think living men can make bet- ter laws for the guidance of living men than laws never so wise and benign, made by men who have long been dust. If to take the islands seems best, I would be in favor of taking them, and || changing the constitution to fit the case. It seems to me an absurd prop- osition that the will of the people once put on record becomes so unchangea- ble that it may be used to defeat the will of the people driven to new chan- nels by unwonted. environment' " and stimulated by a patriotism to a course of action once. deemed far beyand the possible. P, WA les printed concerning- the ‘waf .with Spain is a mystery, but not m S the public than to the nelspaper. | That the Government has ehosen to | clog the ordinary channels of an act of wisdom with which | sonable person will find faul utterly shut off information. scenes of activity is an impossibility: More or less of it will leak through and is certain to be eagerly received. Along with this has come a mess of:rubbish, some of it without shadow . tion, but it had to be published; for at the time of receipt there was ne.reason for doubting its integri I :confess that this puzzles me. Despite a-foolish opinion to the contrary, new do not wish to print bogus |tion. Any reporter knows: | him to write a deliberate | equivalent to handing in a re The correspondents who havé -gone to | the front seem also to have gone daft.’ | At any time save during war such cor | duct as theirs would mean disrissal. | do not know more than three papers in | the United States which would print as truth a statement they know: to be false. These are the New York Journal, the New York World and ithe San Francisco Examiner. But this inholy trio constitute a class apart, nét to be considered in discussion of journalism, Other papers try to get the exact news, but during the last month thera is not | one of them but has been fooled on | more than one occasion. War: seems to be demoralizing. We laugh: at the wild fabrications of the Span S and yet among the - journal s country, staid, painstaking, :proud of their accuracy, ready to go to any ex- Dense to get the real news, thére is not one but has been led into the absurdity of reporting details of battles never | fought, speeches never made, . inter< | views never given. I do not know what can be done about it. When a story is traced to its souree there does niot.seem to be any source. I suspect the. sea- gulls. FOR AN ALLIANCE: To the Editor of the San Francisco | Call—Sir: The sentiment of General | Barnes is that of the people—that “the | destiny of this nation points further than | some can All territory seized in war | must be retained to add luster to the gl | of the last and greatest of the nations | Let Russia, Germany, et al. howl and bluster as they plea What we fairly. win by our sword we will surely hold by our sword, as the trustee- of Gppri ;DK‘”N s, who claim (with us) and have the inalienable right to li the pursuit of happin ithheld from them by the tyranny of Spain, that loathe arrogance, thumbscrews and rac | she vainly plots with kindred a | to block our way, let us lock arms with England, our natural ally and true frien and together sweep despotism;: slav and inhumanity into the crowded limbo of the past. Spain is the born foe. of- ot race, and she must humbled 2 crushed. N f | no compromise is pos this hyena of the nat.ons must be cut, and its blood-reeking fangs drawn’ once. for all, thoroughly and finally, so: as -to be rendered powerless to further block ti hall liberty long bloodthirsty nation of be progress of humanity and present an ob- | ject lesson to nations of the same ilk. | Spain flung her imperious armada against | the brave mother of our ra in Eliza- beth’s day, only to meet utter destruction at the hands of her gallant seadogs, alded by the alliance of the stormwinds of o | fended heaven. Her. final doom aw | her now that she dares hurl her-rotten | modern armada against the stalwart off- | spring of the old mother. She relies on | frail reeds when she looks to the effete | despotisms of Burope to champion her | falling cause against us, since no possible | combination of them will be rash enough | to face the Thor's hammer of the iny nerable -Anglo-Saxon race In resist | fraternal alllance; and if they did, that hammer would crush them to impaipable powder, to be blown by the four winds into everlasting oblivion. Let them make’ no mistakes, for we have done with our family fun (which they -diplomatically encouraged) of twisting {he lion’s tail, anc (to quote General Barnes) we now reach across the ocean in the spirit of real race fraternity, say to -the lion, “Shake a | paw!” and the non responds, “Here, shal both!” Together we can whip thé unru world into submission and secure the | blessings of civilization, freedom and | peace for peoples whom centuries of op- | pression and cruelty have reduced ta th condition of helpless and {xil!uhle slave: This, sir, is the. glorious: mission and de: | tiny ‘of the united branc e of the Anglo- | Saxon race: Yours respectfully, 15 DR.-W.' FRANCIS, Oakland, June 2. Cal. glace fruit-50c per Ib at Townsend's.* oo rirmoihens Speclal Information suppiied daily to business housés' and - public_men: by the Press Clipping Bureau.(Allen’s); 510 Mont- gomery street. 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