The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1898, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. OUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. . Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOM: ....2I7 to 291 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb | £ ‘| that campaign. 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE.... NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, ‘WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. 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HILE there may be differences of opinion in W regard to the position of the United States in hegemony of the Monroe hemisphere, these are confined to us and the nations within that hemis- phere. Necessary acts of war outside of that hemis- phere, in military conflict with a-nation outside of it, do not work any abandonment of the Monroe doc- trine provided they are defensive and not for con- quest. Such an act was the battle of Manila Bay, and | as its result we may hold the territory it put into our hands until its people pay us for their enfranchise- ment, or by other means we are recouped the cost of To this policy no nation in the European hemisphere may reasonably object. To hold the Philippines as a permanent conquest raises graver issues, which can be discussed as they appear. The West Indies and Hawaii lie within the Monroe ..Riggs Houes hemisphere, and what we do there is not of European’ ! concern. If we hold Porto Rico, or take Cuba away from the mongrel bandits who have mortgaged it to American speculators and agitators, such action is to be governed by our own interests solely, and Euro- pean interference would be an unfriendly act, sure to rouse resentment. So far, then, it is apparent that we have not pro- voked any intrusion by Europe upon a field in which | our primacy is established by both policy and arms. This view of it increases our .responsibility. We can, perhaps, settle issucs easier with Europe, where a rivalry of national interests sets up a system of checks and balances which follows the flags of that hemisphere into Asia and Africa, than with our Latin- American neighbors. They are jealous of their autonomy, resourceful and defiant. If in our terms of peace with Spain we are hard, and if we take Cuba away from the insurgents or dic- tate to them too much their future action, with the example of Hawaii before them these neighbors in our hemisphere will be roused to a watchfulness which will harden into hatred. In our present enterprise we have not a friend among them. They are passive, but the coldness of their negative position is unmistakable. The friend- ship generated in the Venezuela incident has evap- orated. The ties of a common ancestry ally their sympathies with Spain. The traits of the Spanish character and the heat of the Spanish blood are vital ™ OLONEI ‘:lmm the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan. L the presidency of the national organization of | Their aggregate population equals ours. If it Republican League Clubs is a matter over | Come to pass that they see in the fate of Hawaii a which there can be a good deal of congratulation. | settled policy of the United States toward its weaker It is gratifying to the Republicans of California to neighbors, if they are convinced that we desire ter- have one of their number chosen to this high honor, | Fitorial aggrandizement and seek it by inciting re- and it must be gratifying also to the Republicans of | bellion and accepting sovereignty from its leaders the nation at large that the direction of one of the | Whom we first put in power, our own hemisphere | will ‘offer a volume of problems which will occupy most potent tial of the organizations of the party is in t nds of a man so competent to use | our diplomacy and test maybe our capacity for a pro- it effectively in the'coming \paign. | longed military adventure far beyond our own There is s a satisfaction in seeing a Califor- | borders. nian attain national recognition. We are so far from | FPerhaps our people are too sentimental. We may the center of the population of the country that the | think we deserve gratitude from these nations. We work of Californians is not often duly noted or known | may. learn that gratitude is an elusive element in na- in the East. . When .ofir dc]cguc; go beyond the ‘ tional affairs. When do you find it toward England Mississippi to attend conventions they are received |as a survival of the leadership of William III against as something like visitors from a far land who are | Louis XIV, or the delivery of the Continent from to be greeted with hospitality, shown marked atten- | Napoleon at Waterloo? tion and then bidden godspeed and farewell. It is | It will appear that in the present situation we may rare that they are recognized as men who are en- | be little troubled about the attitude of Europe and | titled to take part in national administrations. We | that i perplexities generate in the attitude of are therefore pleased with Colonel Stone’s triumph | America. over his friendly and worthy rivals in the t. Itis | another evidence of the growing prestige of Califor- | REYOLUTION IN THE COTTON TRADE. nia in the Union, another proof that Pacific Coast | REVOLUTION in the totton frade is thréat- men will nc ays be overlooked when national 'fl ened by the new process of putting the cotton honors are distributed. DIRECTORY. THE YOUTHS’ Q Y the stately parade and formal ceremonies at- ) tending the laying of the cornerstone of the e Youths’ Directory, Nineteenth and Guerrero streets, to-day, public attention will be again directed to that institution and the good work to which it is devoted. It is altogether right and fitting that this should be so. The Yo one of the most bene- ficent of the genuine charities of the city, and the oc- casion of laying the cornerstone of the building which is to be its home and the theater of its activities de- serves to be made one of more than ordinary dignity and solemnity To many men and many women honor is due for the work they have done for the institution, and the potent aid they have given in supporting it in the past and in providing the means to erect a permanent . home for it. That honor will be given wherever the good effects of the work have been felt and the names of the workers are known. To one among them, however, special honor will be given, for the upbuilding of the institution has been with him an absorbing labor; he has given not a part of his time and energy to it, but all; he has identified himself with it so completely that his name and his memory will be forever associated with it. So well known is the scope of the work of the Youths' Directory that it hardly needs explanation to any class of our people. Its beneficence is not con- fined to the youth of any particular class or portion of our mixed and cosmopolitan population. To all of the youth who need its help the help is given to the extent of its power. It harbors homeless chil- dren irrespective of creed or nationality, and by rea- son of that liberality of good work it has been fa- vored ' with the sympathy and good will of all who have any sympathy at all with self-sacrificing labors for the welfare of humani e ——————— The powers are advising Spain to cede to this coun- try one or two unimportant islands in the Philippines and then convert the rest into republics to be under Spanish suzerainty. The powers might as well with- hold their counsel. Spain is not in a position to cede the islands, her title being shaky, and is not calcu- lated to engineer republics. Perhaps Europe may yet awaken to the fact that Uncle Sam will be a factor in the final adjustment. her Crowley, The array of gentlemen who are announcing a lack of desire to accept a Senatorship is becoming of im- posing length. Still, some of the individuals are put- ting themselves to unnecessary trouble, because the public does not care whether they want to be sent to Washington or not, having not the least intention of thrusting the honor upon them. While the Southern Pacific in providing cars run- ning from the water front to the ocean has done an act that will be appreciated, the service is woefully inadequate. Jt is not fair to ask patrons to ride mile after mile standing, jammed, trodden on and hustled by the swaying throng hanging painfully to straps. “The fact that the Irene prevented Aguinaldo from landing was none of Dewey's business” declares a German paper. All right. Then the fact that Dewey considered the course of Aguinaldo none of the Irene’s business just makes honors easy. Sehg g America is paying a pretty stiff figure for war, yet, considering the quality, cannot complain. But Spain hasn't struck a bargain sale. | | | 000, and are mostly held by small owners. into shipping shape in round bales instead of the old method of square ones. The Philadelphia Public Ledger states that one of the largest capital- | ists in Boston, together with a well-known sugar trust man of New York, are actively interested in the enterprise. This indicates that very effective efforts may be made to introduce the round baling system which is claimed to be superior. Nearly all improvements in industrial art work ul- timately for the general good, but most of them bring about a very large amount of temporary loss during the transition stage from the old order to the new, and in this effect the change from the square to the round bales seems likely to be unusually severe and far reaching. There are two ways in which such evil will risked in this purposed innovation. be One is the com- monly experienced disasters that result from many | men being thrown out of employment and of much | capital invested in existing plants being practically destroyed. The other is the possibility: of the for- mation of a gigantic trust for the control of the cot- ton trade which would exceed in extent any other of the big trusts of the country. The magnitude of the first evil may be gathered from the fact that there are scattered through ' the South 40,000 ginning plants with the old outfit for making square bales. These are worth about $50,000,- They fur- nish work to about 160,000 day laborers and bring in an income to them and the owners of some $10,000,- 000 a year. Added to this must be the value of the large compress plants used for concentrating the square bales. There are 300 of these, worth on an average $30,000 each, which makes $9,000,000 to be destroyed by the new baling that throws them out of date. The income of these presses is $4,000,000. Al- together it is estimated that by the present method there is $25,000,000 yearly earned by the laborers and small owners in the South. It is supposed that by tHe new process only 4250 gins would be required to handle the entire cotton crop. These would be located, as oil mills now are, along the railway, and the presses would not be sold, but be worked on a royalty. This concentration of the ginning and baling under the control of a few large capitalists would naturally be followed by a control of the buying, and compe- | tition in buying would be greatly restricted and per- haps altogether prevented and the price regulated arbitrarily by a board of the combine. affairs might come about just as other at trusts have grown to power, and just as the cattle trade came under the domination of a few men in Chicago. Cotton, moreover, would afford a much larger field | for a trust than either sugar, or oil, or cattle. Not only the immense value of the lint, but the oil and the meal made from the cotton seed would likely be controlled by the round bale ginneries. However great these threatened evils may be, it the round bale is really a decided improven.ent on the square bale the innovation will come and it ought to come. Though it may be difficult to do away with the evils of trusts, it is against the trusts, and not against | the round bale, that opposition should be roused. As for the loss of capital and employment. this seems inevitable in all forward industrial movement. e ] Powder mill explosions have a queer habit of hap- pening in pairs. This fact has a tendency to make them look less like strokes of Providence than evi- | dence that not all of Spain’s friends have gone to the front to do their fighting. There will be no fatted calves sacrificed when Toral and Linares get back to Spain. This state of | “JULY 17, 1898. UNPATRIOTIC ' CORPORATIONS. TTENTION was yesterday directed to perni- fl cious evasion of the war tax by the Wells- Fargo Express Company. While that concern is guilty of defying the statute, of withholding sup- port from the Government which protects it, and of | imposing upon the patrons from whom it draws divi- dends, it is not alone in its lack of patriotism. There are other corporations pursuing a course equally un- grateful and despicable. The management of the Telephone Company an- nounces with an air of virtue that it will pay the war tax; actually pay the war tax specifically im- posed upon it by Congress. Here's an instance ot gfacious condescension, to be sure. There was | nothing else for it to do. It has struck the pose as of a philanthropist, but it is merely obeying the law. To demonstsate this, the part of the act governing is given in full: . " “It shall be the duty of every person, firm or cor- poration owning or operating any telephone line or | lines to make, within the first fifteen days of each month, a sworn statement to the coliector of in- ternal revenue in each of their respective districts, stating the number of messages or conversations transmitted over their respective lines during the pre- was imposed, and for each of such messages or con- | versations the said person, firm or corporation shall | pay a tax of 1 cent.” | Of course there is a mild triumph m forcing a cor- poration to obey the law, but that it does so after it ‘has cndeavored to play a Wells-Fargo confidence gamie, and found that it couldn’t, gives it no excuse | for being puffed with pride. There is absolutely no | warrant for the scheme the @ompany devised of mak- ing customers pay the tax on all messages bearing | tolls of less than 50 cents, itself to pay the rest.” The message costing more than half a dollar to transmit is a comparative rarity. The corporation was en- | deavoring to let its treasury down easy, and the reso- lution to lead a better life came very late. The Call has bills from the Telephone Company, bearing date | ef July 16, 1898, wherein charges are made for the | war revenue taxes for messages sent from this of- dce. There seems to be a conflict between this fact nd the talk of the management. Frankly, the com- | pany has been making its patrons pay that which it should have paid, and finding that the patrons would net submiit, that the law meant what it said, has de- cided, so it declares with a conscious air of good- ness, that it will conduct its affairs in a lawful way. Its bills do not yet substantiate this. Let the com- pany refund what it has illegally exacted. If it shall | not do so, the cloud of suspicion now over its char- acter will remain. The Western Union Telegraph Company is worse. | It pretends to believe the law exempts it, that it | stands on a different plane from another company engaged in the transmission of messages. It does not pay the tax, and declares it will not pay. = The | Western Union has been the gainer by the war to the extent of thovsands of dollars daily™ It enjoys pro- tection and special privileges under the Government to whose support it now meanly aeclines to con- tribute. It has secured a construction of the law by which it is declared not bound to pay the tax. | That Congress intended to bind it, and that it is morally bound, there can be no question. In all probability it will find itself legally bound also. | Meantime it will filch from the people who patronize it, and force these people to pay the tax out of pay- ment of which it sneaks in a fashion most contempti- ‘vle. It should be brought to its-senses with a sud- denness, and made to refund, as well as conduct its | business as Congress has instructed. - And when this {has happened, the Western Union need not go to | the trouble of posing as the essence of patriotism, either. A United States Commissioner in Towa has ruled | that express companies must pay a war tax. The | telephone people say they will, although they haven't; “bm the Western Union. richest of all, profiting most of all from the war, asserts that it doesn’t have to, and won't. We confess to a lack of admiration for such greed. ASSESSOR DALTON’S AMBITION. HE Third Street Boodler, of $30,000 Southern TPacific contract fame, announces the candidacy of Assessor Dalton of Alameda for member of the State Board of Equalization by charging The Call with a desire to thwart his ambition. This is a roundabout way of putting a man forward for an office, but it is customary for boodle newspapers to | approach the sack with great caution. In their cases conscience seems always to be working, and their indirection is undoubtedly the result of a desire to conceal their motives from the observation of an often not very observing public. | But the Boodler is mistaken in thinking that we | object to Assessor Dalton being a candidate for the i State Board of Equalization. In fact, we greatly pre- fer him to Mr. Morehouse, the railroad’s friend, | whose aspirations the Boodler says he intends | to antagonize. The latter's theory of equali- | zation is very objectionable to wus. For six- teen years he has expended his energies in cutting down railroad assessments and increasing | those of the real and personal property taxpayers of the city. We regard this as a false theory, notwith- standing the Boodler has frequently supported it as I"openly as it dared. During the twenty-two months in which our contemporary drew $1000 a month from | the Southern Pacific Comipany it was a silent ad- mirer of Mr. Morehouse’s propensity for equalizing assessments in favor of the monopoly. There are, however, insuperable objections to As- sessor Dalton as a member of the State Board of | Equalization. His talent for assessing the property of others is too highly developed. True, he has so far exercised this talent upon the railroad, but what | guarantee have we that immediately upon being elected State Equalizer he will not begin to exercise it at the expense of the people of this city? More- house was also a “reform” Assessor of Alameda County. His tendency to cut down railroad assess- ! ments and increase those of ather people was never | developed until he began his work at Sacramento. | Notwithstanding the vigorous attempts made by the unanimous press of this city to change this system | (except during the twenty-two months the Examiner was on the railroad payroll) Morehouse has never | been able to see why he and the railroad should pay | any taxes at all. o . Doubtless Assessor Dalton would. for the purposes | of the Boodler, be a good State Equalizer. He might | decline to imitate Morehouse and at Sacramento re- | sume his quest for railroad gore. In that event a situation might be created which would enable the | Boodler to regain its old place at the Southern Pa- cific erib. It is well known that one of the favorite | methods of this sheet for bringing corporations to time is to create a crisis in their ¥nancial affairs. What could be more profitable than the Dalton theory of equalization, apolied to the railroad. with the Boodler in control and ablc at any time to put a stop to proceedings? The figure could easilv he made $2000 instead of $1000 2 month under such circum- ceding month, for which a charge of 15 cents or more | 4 Santiago has set a precedent for Havana. 7 l LR-R-R 8- ‘With the characteristic bravery of the anonymous, some unknown critic writes to crush me for having “at- tacked” Hubbard T. Smith. The ex- tent of my offending was that I re- buked Mr. Smith for having claimed to have written a song which had been written by Eugene Field. Even un- der the light of a correction coming from a source which chooses not to reveal itself, I fail to see wherein I erred save perhaps in the direction of mildness. It is true, as the critic af- firms with evident feeling, that my re- marks. did not appear until after Smith had disappeared, but Smith must share the burden of this fault. Probably it ‘was inconvenient for him to wait over for the next ship, so as to see what I would have to say about him, while the impracticability of my saying anything before his pretense had been published can be grasped even by the intelligence of the person who writes stuff to which he is afraid to append his name. It matters nothing that on occasions Smith may have said that he only com- | posed the music of the song. On the particular occasfon to which reference | was had he asserted unqualifiedly that the song was his, and as the song is not his I think the justification for calling attention to the fact complete. Furthermore, the next anonymous as- sailant who projects himself into my notice will wish he hadn’t if the type- writer can stand the strain. s s s There is some satisfaction in noting that the flock to which Bdwards Davis formerly ministered is being scattered. No better use could be thought of for a flock which would deliberately listen to the monkey-shining Davis, a fellow who belongs to the sawdust ring rather than to the pulpit. Now, if Davis him- self will scatter, the sense of gratifica- tion will be promoted to an actual joy. s s s A Call subscriber sends me a clip- ping from the Washington Star to show that in disagreeing with the treasonable sentiments ascribed to Sen- ator Wellington of Maryland I “over- shot the mark.” My expressions were based on a direct accusation made in the Baltimore American news columns and discussed at length editorially in the same and the following issues. ‘Whether or not I overshot the mark depends upon a decision as to which paper lled. There is no way available by which to ascertain. I certainly have no desire to misrepresent the sentiments of Senator Wellington nor anybody else. I am puzzled, however, to understand how in overshooting' so lofty a mark as Wellington I happened to hit the sort of a person who divorces himself from his name every time he has instructions to give. « s e Having received a word of commend- atfon, the Post in its pleased surprise prints it as “Praise from St. Hubert.” | The gentleman upon whose approba- tion an especial premium has been set had been known heretofore as Sir Hu- | bert, his other name being Stanley, | and the difference between a sir and a saint is said to be easily recognizable. | However, it is not to be wondered at | that the Post should have acted on the | impulse to canonize him. §oie) By the latest steamer from Australia came a story about a tiger trainer who has suffered the discomfort of being eaten by a feline in whose education there had evidently been some defect. The spectacle, of course, was not a pleasing one, yet I can imagine no use | for a tiger trainer save to furnish his pupil with a meal. As between trainer and tiger my sympathy is always with the captive beast. He is kept in a cage, to which he may grow accus- tomed and cease to pine, but he never becomes inured to the red hot iron, the lash and the utility of belng prodded with a pitchfork until induced to jump through a hoop must be beyond his grasp. He belongs to a family en- dowed by the Creator with a bad tem- per and a taste for meat. When man- meat invades his cage he feels resent- ful, and when, by hostile demonstra- tion, the man-meat invites disaster, T do not see where the ground for pity- ing him appears, if the invitation be accepted. There are methods by which one may avoid contributing to the gus- tatory delight of a tiger, and the best of all Is to keep away from there. CYR e In the name of a_ tortured humanity I wish to enter protest against the abominable form of unnatural crime known as the “coon song.” As a rule this song is absolutely without merit of melody and the words are worse than | idiotie, for they indicate that the writer | must have sense enough to know that | he is making a fool of himself. I have ’ln mind particularly a recently pub- lished outrage, entitled ‘“Honey, You're the Warmest Gal in Town.” The title is in itself an indecency, according to a late decision by Judge Morrow, who had to pass upon a similar breach of good manners concerning the proprietorship of which two persons had had the nerve to quarrel. I do not know the tune written for the words, but if it were a refrain stolen from the celestial | choir it would be inadequate to the | raising of the song to a plane of re- spectability. It may be noticed that chronic offenders have a mania for us- ing “baby” and “lady,” as though the result resembled rhyme. These terms | thyme in the melliflucus perfection of “crocodile” and “alligator.” I cannot understand why such things can be published, but as they are published at intervals painfully short there must be a demand for them. In this cir- | cumstapnce is a powerful argument in | support of Nordau's theory of degener- ation, and it is strange the investiga- | tor should have overlooked' it. If the songs were really tough, of course they would appeal to a certain class, but they are not this. They are simply silly, and marked by the crudest form of vulgarity, unrelieved by a flash of wit or a touch of pretty sentiment. ‘What are they for, anyhow? . e o For a time most of the papers of the city, convinced that Camp Merritt was detrimental alike to the health of sol- ofer and civilian, protested against its existence, but to no avail. The strug- gle was given up because it appeared that some influence, never strictly de- fined, wanted the camp to remain. There never was, in the first place. any excuse for the camp. From every point of view it has been from the begin- ning an affliction. Now it is positive- ly unfit for human habitation. Out in the Presidio are hundreds of unoc- In‘—my ought to be similar to that en- (R R R RN RN RN LERRINRRRRRRLERRRIRRIBNER WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS., By HENRY JAMES. R R R NN RN RRN ERURRNRRRRIRRRRIRIRES cupled acres admirably adapted to the use of soldiers. Why are they not utilized? I do not know, but in the present arrangement there is a shame- less job. ut of the Kansas regiment alone six men have died. The colonel begged to be allowed to go to the Pre- sidlo, and the request was refused. The New York men arrived, smelled the situation over, and demanded to be given a place on the reservation. They got it. The New Yorkers have more money than the Kansans. They came here with a pull so strong that the rep- utation of it preceded them. But in patriotism the Kansan is the equal of the New Yorker, to his country his life is as valuable. The distinction made between them is nothing but an exhi- bition of red tape. Technically, the New Yorker belongs to the Department of California, and the Kansan to the Philippine expeditionary forces. In reality they are both soldiers who have volunteered to serve their country, and it s not fair that either should be obliged to take up quarters on the reeking sands of Camp Merritt. Their lives are their country's, but this gives the country no excuse for throwing them away. Camp Merritt should be abolished, not when the last fleet has sailed for the islands, but to-day. PR According to a Chicago paper, a Bos- ton minister recently advertised that he would speak in the morning on “Reasons for Resting in the Loving Arms of God,” and in the evening on “To Hell With Spain.” It is the priv- ilege of any man to look on the Chi- cago paper with suspicion, yet the name of the minister Is given, and his address. I refrain from mentioning them here, for the reason that the ad- vertising rates are not so arranged as to cover matter appearing in this col- | If there is such a preacher, he | umn. is a blackguard. . “Publicola” has written another let- ter to this paper. Like the first, it was an able production within narrow lines. It is plausible reading, but can- not bear the test of analysis. It sim- ply argues that the United States hav- ing been successful should not pre- sume to reach out to greater- things. I cannot acquiesce, but being only an individual, this makes no material dif- ference. If the rules laid down by “Publicola” were to be followed, there would be an end to progress. Apply them to personal effort, and their fal lacy at once becomes apparent. He would have the nation do now as it did when an infant. According to his idea logically worked out, we should stilk be carrying grist to mill with a stone in one end of the sack. I do not see how he reconciles himself to advance- ment as displayed in private life, while so strenuously objecting to anything akin to advancement in national life. He would build a wall, across which the liberty and civilization we some- times seem to enjoy could not pass. This strikes me as being at once. self- ish and suicidal. It is all very well to say we have sufficient ‘territory for three hundred million people, but I notice that with something like seventy-five million there are strong men begging vainly for work, women hungry and girls crowding boys out of a chance to earn bread. The common people cannot develop the country, be. cause it does not belong to them. It be- | longs to corporations and money loan- tertained by the head of the army. AS a body of officers and men they might reasonably glory in the achievements of a part of their number. I regret to say that a mean and petty jealousy may be observed among the officers. Out at the Presidio there are few kind words for Shafter. While he was ag- saulting he was criticized harshly for sacrificing’ his men, he had not made \'pmper disposition either of troops or ‘slege guns, he was a blunderer, every- | thing but a soldier. The outcome has | vindicated Shafter. It has been shown | that he conducted his campaign wise- | 1y and well, and attained results at the | 1east cost of blood. Now let the carp- | ing critics within military circles have | the grace to shut up. .o In demanding the right to retaln their arms the Spanish displayed a nerve almost equal to that of ?he Kaiser in sending his ships to Manila. 1The transportation of a defeated army i#no trifle, and were the thousands to be put aboard carrying the weapons of war they might forget that they | had been licked, and take the hcim There would have to be | themselves. a guard as great in number as the prisopers,.and. the use of twice the ransports necessary now would be re- uired. It is impossible not to admire the courage of the Spanish, but also impossible to tell at what points this courage merges into the quality known as gall. THE SLAVES OF FASHION. Man is the slave of unthinking tailor, haberdasher and shoemaker. Custom makes a fool of him in hot weather. In Havana he would wear thin clothes all | the time, but the July temperature in the | Cuban' capital averages only 82 degrees.. | In Boston, with lhf‘ mercury u;: o;oumlfix;e 1 igher, e wears - e | wiisteoat, starched shirt, collars stiff, hard shoes, and a straw hat that binds his forehead as if it were in a vise, Why? Because he has not the ¢ silly fashions. / houses men dress more sensibly. Ungy starched linen, low collars, soft shoes and: pliable hats are there worn and enjoyed. Why should these comforts be aban- doned when they are most needed? Whys should men go about ‘‘covered with an appearance of vanity and vexation of | xa [ Spst? many men is of peculiar The courage of | quality. They dare to face dangers, but and cuffs, not embarrassments. It embarrasses | them to attract attention. He is a hero | who wears a duck linen suit and a Stan- | ley hat in Boston. Such virtue is its own | réward. But if men see fit to swelter all summer long they alone suffer from their | folly. The laundries do not care how oft- | 'en they have to starch linen; so long as | the charge is by the plece.—Boston Jour- | nal. e j DIRECT FROM NORTHERN PORTS: | _The proposal to ship troops direct from | Fort Monroe or other avallable points on the Northern Atlantic coast, in place of | sending the men down to Southern Flor- | ida, seems a timely departure. Much has been said about seasoning our men by having them camp on the Florida sand | patches, but there is a big doubt whether | there Is not more exhaustion than valu- | able seasoning in the process. Southern ! Florida at this time of the year is not a whit less uncomfortable than Cuba. The heat s just as intense on the sandy. soil, while the mosquitoes bite almost, if alto “ther, as fiercely. In as few days | it tases to go to Tampa or Miami by the hot and tiresome railroad cars, swift and commodious vessels of the St.’ Lows a Harvard and Yale type would take our soldiers direct to Santiago. This_method of sea transportation will not, of course, be relished by the rail- !'roads, which_have already amassed:big | bills against the War Department—rnmor | puts them at $15,000,000—but if it conduces to the swifter passage and greatsr com- | fort of our troops, the idea deserves.to hc encouraged. The Sea trip has to be made, after all' even from Tampa or Key West, | With the better class of boats it coull l'e made at once from the Atiantic ports at no loss of time, while eliminating the iiis- comforts of Southern camps and South- | ern railroads.—Pittsburg Dispatch. | Treat your Eastern friends to California ers, who in turn are to a great extent | Glace Fruits, Slc Ib. in re-etched boxes, J 4 street, Palace H ldg. * ths . propéty Jot” ‘the - /deyil “The |0 oo raot gtrest Palace Hotel blde people cannot develop its indus-| Special information supplied dally to tries, because monopoly has seized | lgusme(sfii h?use% and p&bllllc 'n:er;mbgz‘ t):e . ress ng Bureau en’s), 510 Mont- these, and perhaps does not want | coues CLRRIOE TUTEER TUIE 8. e MOU them developed. “Publicola” is —_——————— misled by the notion that the United States is a place of sweet content. 1t is far from it. There are threatening murmurs. There is an energy that finds no outlet. Therefore, I believe in enlargement. Perhaps in distant lands there may be a chance for the poor man. If our civilization is better than the savagery of the Philippines let it expand. If it is not, let it re- | main at home and accustom itself to | | The Isle of Wight has lost one of its | oldest and most popular residents by the death of Mr. Harbottle Estcourt, who had | filled the office of Deputy Governor of the {island for thirty-two years, having origi- | nally received the post from Lord Ever: |ley. Mr. Estcourt was a stanch Conserva- | tive and a great favorite of the Queen | and_Princess Beatrice. —_——— | Rates Are Cut Call at 1t To Bed rock new ticket office | of the Santa Fe route at 628 Market st. Very half rations, and the reign of Rocke- | low rates to all Eastern citles. It will pay fellers, Hannas, Huntingtons and | you to investigate. Sages. But I believe it is better. | Any contractor deliberately furnish- | ing the army with bad bacon desarves | to be shot. The war thus far has been conducted on such humane principles that this course has not been taken, and yet shooting would be mild. The sternest justice would demand a rcpe. . e There is a demand for a new national song, which does not seem likely to be | adequately met by the poet, because! L the American poet is either mostly | O o dead or unborn. Meanwhile the task | & 9 3 of being fairly well satisfled with such | ¢ MACKAY S + as we have is not difficult. 1 like O o “America,” both words and tune freing g ¥ 3 an inspiration to patriotism. It is| 4 SEMI-ANNUAL + true, alas and alas, that “God Save O o the Queen” is sung to the same ajr, ¢ REMNANT & and that here and there the aarrow- i? 2 ness of a human mind has shown it- | o o self by objecting to it on this account. | 4 + I call attentlon to the fact that the O S ALE g same sun which shines on FEngland | ° 3 throws his beams benignly on this land = ¢ + also, and that the man who would | Q °F ¢ dodge them as unflt to warm him and | 3 o light his pathway would have his ¢ P T ¢ soundness of judgment questioned. No CAR 2 matter whence the melody. With pious | z fervor the Salvation Army sings hymns o 2 to the composition, “There’ll Be a Hot \ b Time in the Old Town To-Night.” Ever LINOLEUM o the “Star Spangled Banner” was sc * to the music of a drinking song, “An & 2 acreon in Heaven,” manifestly an in:- p'.’?:.f:,i'",fi afi?o:;aaw n ‘lfi:{é:n:hg;e?x o :ropgr song,hglr t;he alssump[lon that ;&2«: vards, at these extraordinary low 8 e ever reac! e place is a retlec- = tion upon the character of a city pearly | K. ;ra?)g{grgrlf s. % .532 ;:; 5555 3 gated and golden paved.! Anacreon | O Bron Vorrmr - v el o was an elegant voluptuary, always ¢ AXMINSTER .. 63c {;'e: Jany 9 drunk on wine or pining for a chance 2 3 to be, and drunk or sober, scribbling | o 3 odes to some lady who, for lack of rai- | ¢ ENGLISH LINGLEUM REMNANTS P ment and morals, could not get into | : society. Yet In the presence of the ]S 424 il quantitied. 3B -pc mjuare 3 resonant “‘Star Spangled Banner,” sung g " This s a cenulne Spectal Sale to ¢ by Americans, the heart beats high, ¢ Ii"ri‘i."“‘w"\?“‘ rlgrr’x!tl'hsnfi:;lqd:w”? pat- g and the head is bared. o, too, of (O Bring measurements witn v, 2 1t & “America.” They're pretty good songs. ‘ 8 3 i de e + & It has been noticed with gratification ! 2 FURNITURE > that General Miles has not been spar- | o DURING REMNANT SALE _ 4 & Ang of his praise for General Shatter, | $ M0 feiariment we offer a jis Pey’ § and that when he arrived upon the|$Q On everything from ourai: . C° O scene of action he made no effort to| g FRd¥ 10W prices. b4 overshadow the officers who had borne B3 e 3 ¥ the burden and heat and awful respon- | o P o sibility of battle. It seems to me this | § ALEX ¥ ACK Y $ course on the part of Miles is manly ¢ A & SON? and decent, should have béen expected, | 9 g O and that the feeling throughout the 3 715 Market Street' 3 | #0040 40404040404040¢040¢ | port. bl SO ¥ TO PORTLAND, OREGON, 43 hours.' First cabin, $12; second-class, $S, including meals and berths. Steamship Columbia, 2000 tons, July 10, 18, 2, August 3. Steamship State of California, 1500 tons, July 14, 3, August 7. Sail from Folsom-street pier No. 12, 10 a. No better or more modern steamships on- Pa- cific coast. A cool and delightful summer trip; exhilarating sea air. The public is wel- come and invited to t these ships while in O 630 Market street. ADVERTISEMENTS. $0404040404040404+04+040404