The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1898, Page 6

: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1898. JE)HN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1574 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for IS cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE...cocuveneens teiressssneses-908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, One year, by mall, 'WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE «....Rigges Houes | C. C. 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SYLVESTER SCOVEL, NUISANCE. of the most obnoxious features of the war n Cuba from the first has been a fellow named | Ivester Scovel, now of the New York World. much so-called news concerning the in- st of it has been wholly unreliable. | ed around the scenes of conflict with | ence of a hyena and many ad-| characteristics of that unclean beast. Among , he has been charged with violating a f memory serves us, he has been in | our judgment is not at fault, he should | t e yet. ing the transfer of Santiago from Spanish to BY WAY OF REMINDER. HAT the Wells-Fargo Express Company is trying to evade the payment of its just share of war taxes has been related. To the story needs only to be added that there is much indignation over this flagrant act of unpatriotism. People were slow to believe that a vast corporation, protected by the Government, making additional profits by reason of the war, would refuse to pay its share of the ex- penses, while citizens in every walk of life are pay- ing and making no protest and asking no questions. But it is even so. Wells-Fargo, rich and growing | richer, declines to contribute. Is there a law greater | than Wells-Fargo? Is there a statute superior to | the will of J. J. Valentine? | Records show that 9o per cent of the profits of | the Wells-Fargo concern comes from California pa- trons, and that most of the stock is held in the East. | | While the matter is national, rather than sectional, it is an irritating circumstance that an institution de- pending largely upon this State for its income should demean itself in a manner so small and contemptible. In a way, its course is a reflection upon the State, and yet in responding to every demand made by its country for men and money, California has been prompt and willing. It touches the popular pride that a concern so thoroughly Californian should be derelict. It is fair to say that the blame for this attitude of greed rests upon President Valentine. | Some of his associates recognize the fact that he is wrong in principle, and that the law is directly against him, but tHey are helpless. There should be no difficulty in putting the mat- ter to a test. The express company contends that patrons must pay the tax which Congress declared the company must pay. Let somebody offer a package for carriage and refuse to pay for the reve- nue stamp. Then, if the company decline to comply with the regulations of Congress, complaint can be made, and the question brought to a speedy issue. Of course the company is wrong, and of course it is aware of this fact, but to have it rebuked, to have | the prescribed penalty imposed, woutd tend to expel it from the path of error, and at the same time afford a lesson to others prone to sneak out of responsi- bility. Wells-Fargo has not so much as the back- ing of a technicality. Its position is notoriously contrary to the letter and spirit of the war revenue | bill. It simply defies the law, because none has had the. courage to bring it to terms. The courts are open, and the first to have the company haled to the bar will be doing his country a service. And when the corporation has been ordered to bear its portion of the common load, there will remain to it the duty of refunding the sums illegally taken from the people who have patronized it. But ingratitude, as well as a lack of patriotism, can be charged against Wells-Fargo. It has enjoyed le Scovel pushed himself into a promi- | the ceremony, where he had no right | He was properly pulled from his perch by 1 ter he showed his resentment by slapping | the commanding general. Had he been | instead of an interloper this would | 1 capital offense. There will be a feeling of t he does not stand on the plane of the mili- | just long enough to be backed against of a firing squad. He ought to have | killed on the spot. Any officer running him or any private knocking the addled brains i him with the butt of a rifle would have been lauded, and deserved the distinction. That slap nistered to the whole American people. To ion, represented on this august occasion by Shafter, it was an insult unspeakable. known as a knave, emphasized the traits m Cuba to Alaska and back again, have 1 a creature despised. ournalists have had too much to do with General of a prod from a bayonet. But when s to this, in sight of officers and troops, an ndemnation, more than imprisonment. It is ken pity which permitted him to live longer ber the earth LET ONE BE CALIFORNIA. ™ ONTRACTS will soon be let for the building L of three battle-ships. Let one of these be named California. In the name itself there is a distinctive charm, and there are practical reasons why the State should be thus honored. As good warships as float have been made here. The ( n has stood the test of such a journey as no vessel of her class ever essayed before, and at the end of a 15,000 mile run was ready for the conflict. There was speedy call for her services, and in fight, as in voyaging, she covered her builders with glory, and the people of this city particularly, but all along our vast coastline, felt a thrill of pride in her achieve- ments. Dewey's flagship at the head of his squadron when it won a fame which shall last as long as his- tory was the Olympia. San Francisco builders wrought it, and in all the severe trials of peace, and when guns were thundering from her and at her, she showed no sign of imperfection. Again was the State proud of the handiwork of its craftsmen. And among all the vessels turned out here there has been none to bring reproach upon the Pacific. The world acknowl- edges that ships made here are as good as the best. Furthermore, this State contributes freely to the per- sonnel of the navy. Many of the brave boys with Dewey. and many who made the unprecedented trip under Captain Clark, were born and grew up on the shores of the bay into which the Olympia and Oregon glided on the day of their launching. So one of the mightiest of States in area, in re- source, peopled by patriots, in touch with naval af- fairs, wants a battle-ship to bear its name—Califor- nia—and the flag of the common country to distant seas, to sustain the nation in calm or in strife. And who doubts that the artisans who in the Oregon made so splendid a record would strive with all the cunning of their skill to turn over to Uncle Sam a ship even better than the one now in West Indian waters, the peerless and magnificent Oregon? Give us a Cali- fornia. e e —— According to esteemed contemporaries, Cuban ter- ritory surrendered by Toral embraces 50,000 square miles, this being by several thousand miles more land than the entire island contains. Toral must have thrown in some water lots for good measure. There are some glimmers of light In the dark shad- ows of war. Not a word has been heard from Truth- ful Jeems Creelman since in front of Santiago he drew his fountain pen and shot himself to the extent of half a column. The report that some of the Cubans do not want independence would tend to indicate a queer state of feeling in the island, save that as the report comes by way of Madsid it does not tend to indicate anything. oo According to Hearstling sheets, the fake of the editor-in-chief was an “incident.” And they de- voutly wish that it might “close.” 1d when one of the most unsavory of the : es to make his superfluous self a central figure | »de of world-wide interest he earns richly | on the commanding general, he merits more i special privileges and has not seemed to appreciate them. It is within the province ot the Legislature to exact from it a license. In some States this license is 5 per cent of the profits. Nothing of the kind has been done here, but the attitude of the company is such as to invite unfriendly legislation. A percentage of profits would be no small figure. The Wells-Fargo Company was organized with a cap- ital of $6,000,000, and upon this sum paid dividends of 8 per cent until 1804, although only $500,000 had been paid in. At that time the capital stock was arbitrarily raised to $8,000,000, and since then 6 per cent has been the annual return to stockholders. Be- sides this, it has accumulated a reserve fund of $8,000,000. Yet it does not want to help swell the war fund. Ingratitude most wunreasoning and | foolish! To such selfish procedure is due the hatred of cor- | porations, the howl of the anarchist, the Coxey army. Yet Wells-Fargo had been held in high esteem. It wantonly sacrifices its reputation. Already, in Southern California, steps have been taken to pros- ecute it criminally and civilly, and, so radical has been the change of a feeling the company would have done well to cultivate everybody in California will be glad to see it fined for sharp practice and branded as a public offender. DELAYED MAILS FOR DAWSON. EPORTS just received from St. Michael are to R the effect that ex-Mayor Wood of Seattle, who has a contract for carrying six tons of mail to Dawson, instead of going straight to St. Michael and hastening to forward the mail, stopped with his | steam schooner, the Alliance, at Dutch Harbor and | lay there for some time waiting for the construction of a river boat which he proposed to take in tow: While the Alliance was waiting the steamers St. Paul, Roanoke, Grace Dollar and Bertha all stopped | at Dutch Harbor and offered to carry the mail on at once, but their offers were declined. The result of the delay will probably be that the mail will not | reach Dawson at all this season, for according to re- | ports the river is now so low that no boats starting after the St. Paul left St. Michael will be able to as- cend it. Under these circumstances it is not to be wondered that the Klondike miners who at the time were stop- ing at St. Michael were indignant. Nor is it alto- gether surprising that their indignation was so strong that but for the presence of the soldiers at the fort there would have been something like summary pun- ishment meted out to the men responsible for holding the mails back. There is a show of excuse for the offenders. The contract required them to deliver the mail at Daw- son, and St. Michael is only a half-way station to that place. Moreover, while waiting at Dutch Harbor the contractor could not have known that the Yukon is 80 low at this season, and in all reason he could ex- pect to be able to get his river boat ready in time to make the complete trip. This excuse, however, does not help the Dawson people who are expecting letters from their friends. The mail has been delayed, and according to reports the delay seems to be irreparable this summer. ‘That this mishap is going to be the cause of much anxiety is beyond question. At Dawson and along the Yukon many men and not a few women have been waiting all winter to get news from their friends. Some of the thousands of letters that make up this six tons of mail are no doubt communications of prime importance both to their writers and to those for whom they were written. Much positive loss as well as much anxiety may therefore result from the foolish obstinacy of the mail contractor, who, having the mail in his possession, held it at Dutch Harbor instead of speeding it forward as rapidly as possible. There may be no remedy for the injury done in this case, but it should serve as a sufficient warning to pre- vent further mistakes of the kind in future. Govern- ment contracts for delivering mails should require their speedy delivery. It should not be left to the contractor to hold the' mails while he gets a boat put together. Tt would be just as sensible to give let- ters for distribution to a letter carrier and permit him to postpone their delivery until he gets a new pair of shoes made to orde: e Perhaps the policeman who arrested a boy of 6 years was trying to avoid the possibility of having a charge of cowardice brought against hi/tm It may be ) 1 the prisoner showed signs of defiance. / AN INCOMPLETE WORK. LARGE portion of the American Economist of last week is devoted to an account of the pro- ceedings attending the presentation of a com- plimentary memorial to Secretary Bliss on the occa- sion of his retirement from the presidency of the American Protective Tariff League, after a contin- uous term of five years. The occasion was notable, the services of the retiring president were eminent, the memorial was handsome and the address of pre- sentation was eloquent. They well deserved the space the Economist gave them. Nevertheless, there was something lacking, and the very fullness with which the achievements of the Protective Tariff League were enumerated served but to make more impressive the lacking element. Summing up the results of the work of the league, and pointing out what has been realized for American industry while Mr. Bliss was president of the league, the orator of the occasion said: “Our people live in American built homes, held together by American made nails, covered with American made tin, painted with American made paints; they look through American made glass, tread upon American made carpets, rest upon American made furniture, cook in American made pottery, upon American made stoves, cat American made food from American made china, wear American made garments from American goods, read American books, gather around the family altars to read American printed Bibles, and with thankful hearts lift prayers to the Great Giver of every good and perfect gift, for having placed us in this ‘land flowing with milk and honey.’ ” All this is excellent as far as it goes, but what refer- ence is in it to the great industry of shipping? Our American exports and our American imports are car- ried across the seas almost wholly in vessels built in foreign shipyards, manned by foreign sailors, ‘owned by foreign companies, flying foreign flags and earn- ing money for foreign countries. We have accom- plished much in the way of upbuilding home indus- tries, but we still pay a heavy tribute on our com- merce, and as that commerce is now rapidly expand- ing the amount of the annual tribute will largely in- crease unless something is done to prevent it. The lack of any accomplished good for our mer- chant marine and our ship-building industry consti- tutes the blemish upon the record of the Protective Tariff League. It was right and proper that Secre- tary Bliss should receive a memorial for his work as president of the league, for that work has been highly beneficial, but when the league has occasion to com- memorate another five years of its history it is to be hoped it will be able to point out that it has helped to fulfill the pledge of the party of protection to so foster our ship-building industry that “American ships —the product of American labor employed in Ameri- can shipyards, sailing under the stars and stripes, and manned, officered and owned by Americans—may re- gain the carrying of our foreign commerce.” THE SLAUGHTER OF OFFICERS. HEN the reports came of the killed and Wwoundcd among our troops engaged in the fighting around Santiago it was noted that the casualties among the officers in proportion to those among men of the rank and flle were exiremely high. The fact was regarded at the time as an evidence of the valor of the men who are leading our boys to battle, and the statement was frequently made this heroism of leadership was one of the many superiori- ties of the American over the Spanish army. Now that Santiago has been surrendered and the Spanish side of the battles is becoming known, this belief in the superior courage of our officers will have to be dismissed, or at least based upon some other foundation than that of the death rate in the battles. The losses among Spanish officers of high rank were even greater than our own, and it is evident they must have exposed themselves under fire with conspicuous courage from the first skirmish to the end of the fighting. General Toral, the Spanish commander, in talking with our commissioners after the surrender of his army, is reported to have said: “I would not desire to see my worst enemy play with the cards I held. Every one of my generals was killed or wounded. I have not a single colonel left and am surrounded by a powerful enemy.” Such a slaughtering of officers as that report re- veals has rarely been equaled in any war. It is an evidence that our sharpshooters are even more skill- ful than those of the Spaniards in picking off from the enemy’s force the men on horseback or with shoulder straps. The rifle record was in fact of an extremely high order for a battle, and in its way is equal to what was done in the sea fights by our crack gunners. In the meantime it must be noted again that our own officers suffered heavily. Nearly every regiment on our side that was present during the fighting lost one or more of its field officers. Among the killed were a colonel, a lieutenant colonel and a major. Among the wounded were nine lieutenant colonels and five majors. The losses of captains and lieuten- ants were extremely heavy. Altogether we had twenty-three officers killed and eighty wounded, in a series of conflicts which in our Civil War would hardly have been accounted as sharp skirmishes. e An Eastern man having won a verdict of $300,000 against C. P. Huntington went straightway and com- mitted suicide. The motive will be conjectured va- riously. It may be the victor could not bear the thought that Huntington was to be deprived of any of the gold so industriously earned and so dearly cherished. More likely, however, he was fatally pained by contemplation of the difference between getting a verdict against Huntington and getting his hand on the cash named therein. It is a pleasure to agree with the Post in its estimate of the persons who have been selling Red Cross stores to the soldiers, patriotic citizens having provided these stores for the benefit of the boys. Speculators of this stamp deserve to be hanged at the yard arm. Shafter and Sampson seem in doubt as to which is entitled to the ships captured with Santiago, but so long as the ships have been captured people in gen- eral will not bother about such details. For a time the Spanish declared they would not consider peace until they had humbled American pride. They are drifting toward the conclusion that they have nothing to do this with. Bids have not yet been received by the Government for the transport of prisoners to Spain, but there is already evidence tending to show the contractors will charge all the traffic will bear. Hungry and discouraged miners may give the ad- vice to keep away from the Klondike, but the really effective talking will be done by the nuggets the lucky ones bring back. It is impossible to blame the Spanish soldiers harshly for having looted the pantries of Santiago. Their appetites did not surrender. e Perhaps a good dose of seasickness will relieve | Colonel Kessler of that bilious feeling. | CONQUEST AND THE CONSTITUTION—IMPERIAL- ISM IS TREASON. San Francisco, July 18, 1898. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: The dissent of your con- tributor, Henry James, from my comw anication in relation to the war and the project of conquest which is being so industriously pressed, is tersely and courteously expressed in your issue of Sunday last. It invites a few comments, which I present with entire respect. Mr. James complains of the “narrow lines” within which my strictures on the strategic conquest of Hawalli and the proposed forcible conquest of Porto Rico and the Phil- ippines are confined. I make no pretensions to a wide intellectual range, and, indeed, my chief objection to the views of Mr. James and of those who sympathize with them, is that they are outside of American lines. The limits to which I have endeavored to adhere are those of the constitution of my country, under which the Union was established, and which, in a political sense, represents the net results of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War. I observe that Mr. James does not refer to the constitution. I have read much declamation and assertion, but no argument, in favor of the annexation of Hawall or of the policy of conquest which he espouses on the sole ground, so far as I can discover, that, to translate an old Latin epigram, “the times are changed and we must change with them.” I have frequently heard simi- lar observations in reference to the Ten Commandments, even when compressed Into the Golden Rule, but the great body of theists throughout, the world, and millions of ‘those who substitute scientific abstractions or themselves, which is pretty much the same thing, for the personal God of our ancestors, still admit the operative force of the fundamental moral law. This same proposition which deals with organic law as if it were iden- tical with accumulating and diversified facts, destroyed the Republic of Rome. That, in its day, though, like the present Republic of France, bear- ing a very incomplete resemblance to our system, was the best government on earth, and “Civis Romanus sum” was as proud a boast in Rome as “I am an American citizen” is in the United States. But the Romans deter- mined by force to extend the blessings of their republic to distant and alien populations. They acquired an enormous extent of territory. They appointed Military Governors. They established and administered prov- inces. They constructed, for that epoch, a powerful and a vast navy. They organized and supported mercenary armies, in which the aristocratic ele- ment was the Roman citizen, who held the command and dominated the servile masses collected from barbarians who were incapable of Roman cit- izenship. And, when Caesar came, Rome was prepared. Now, after this rapld summary, which, notwithstanding our pride and our newly awakened thirst for military glory, speaks to the American people in the deep and warning tones of history and through the undeviat- ing traits of human nature, rude or cultivated, there are a few pertinent questions which perhaps Mr. James and the school of thinkers he repre- sents can definitely answer. If they can answer them in such a manner as to justify the new departure, that is an end of the argument, and we must all acquiesce in the conclusion But evasion or mere generalities will not be sufficient. Now the questions I propound are these: 1. Is it not true that the American Union, cemented by the Civil War, rests upon the constitution? 2. Is it not true that the constitution is the supreme law of the land? 3. Is it not true that every public officer, military and civil, and every naturalized citizen expressly, and every native born citizen by implication, has sworn to obey the constitution? 4. It is conceded that the United States, in the same manner that it owns custom houses, postoffices, arsenals, forts, naval depots and other property, real and personal, essential to the performance of all governmental functions, may constitutionally acquire and hold as a proprietor, naval and coaling stations, or hous2s for its Embassadors and Ministers in every part of the globe; but in what clause of the constitution, expressly or by implica- tion, is the authority found to annex, conquer, hold and govern territory which cannot be converted into States, and more especially without the consent or against the will manifested through the forms of American citi- zenship of the natlve inhabitants? On its face such a clause would contra- dict nearly every sentence of the Declaration of Independence. If it exists it has been or can be found. Where is it? In the discussions with which the gress for months has reeked, so far as my observation extends. it has not een quoted. 5. If it be true, apart from its admitted physical strength, that the United States has no constitutional right to annex or take by conquest for- eign territory, with non-consenting populations, ineligible to -citizenship, then, in specific reference to the definition of treason, what is the attitude of every legislative, executive and political officer, and of every citizen, within or without the military and naval service, who would consciously and delib- erately violate the constitution and push the nation backward toward impe- rialism? 6. Is it “narrow” to intimate that, if the constitution or our political system, as a whole or in any of its parts, as established by the fathers, and as it now legally exists, has outlived its usefulness and fails #o respond to the wild demands which fill the air as the twentieth century approaches, and the war with Spain furnishes a convenient pretext, it should be abol- ished or amended through constitutional methods, and not by mere usur- pation? 7. No educated jurist or citizen will deny the right of our Government to compel the payment of an indemnity by Spain and to exact temporary se- curity for that purpose. This matter stands on its own footing. But sup- pose we undertook to hold and administer the Philippines with nine millions of inhabitants as a colonial possession or as an integral part of the United States, how would our Government derive its “just powers from the con- sent of the governed,” and in whart particular would these specific complainta against King George in the Declaration of Independence be inapplicable to ourrelves? “—— He has created a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” “—— He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies without the consent of our Legislatures.” “—— He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction for- elgn to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws.” “—— Forquartering large bodies of armed troops among us.” “_ For imposing taxes on us without our consent.” These are a few illustrations of the consequences of the revolutionary ideas which are now prevailing, and to which I regret to see that Mr. James gives his practical indorsement. I hold that the broadest and deepest intellectuality should lead the American people to the enthusias- tic support of their Government exactly as it is. with the constitution and the Union preserved in all their integrity. This is the true conception of the ultimate form of government among men. This is the theory which fits into the mightiest progress that the world has ever seen or ever will see. This is the only enduring basis of a Continental republic, which will confront Europe and Asia with the steady light of liberty, entrenched in law and inspired by intelligent fraternity. This is the sole conceivable protection of a national home, in which teeming millions can be baptized into the civilization of the future, educated and trained to the fulfillment of manifest destiny in the only sense in which it is not a mirage, and pre- pared for that moral, intellectual and material development, which will transcend all the imperialism of the past and pour its erowning glories upon the waters of the Pacific. The objection that these views are incompatible with our national ad- vancement is untenable, and the illustrations by which Mr. James seeks to enforce the objection, in my opinion, are unfortunate. Stern resistance to imperial colonization, whether after the Roman model or the more liberal and progressive methods of Great Britain, is an essential condition not only to our national advancement, but to our national existence. Conquest and the military occupation of foreign dependencies are not within the let- ter or the spirit of our institutions, and are condemned also by the prac- tical and successful administration of our Government, on the level of the constitution, for more than a hundred years. An Asiatic republic would not be an American republic, and the empire of the United States might rupture the heart of freedom. In trade, in commerce, in science, in art, in literature, there are basic principles, without strict adherence to which progress is Impossible, and, in all these lines of human energy, it is the neglect or infraction of these principles that has kept the world back. This is equally the case among individuals. The man who is true to him- self, that is, to his own nature and to the laws which affect it, grows, de- velops and achieves, Lut the man who violates his own constitution falls into decay and ruin. If this nation remains faithful to itself, that is, to its own theory, constitutionality expressed and implied, its expansion, its intelligence, its wealth and its influence, will dominate the earth. I3t basely deserts itself and plunges into reactlonary extravagances, its fall will mark the most desolate spot in history. But Mr. James suggests that it is expedient to drop our constitutional shackles, as I suppose the imperialists may term them, and reach out for Asla, Africa or any other inviting place, in order to avert revolution at home, because the country- “belongs to corporations and money loaners,” and because there are among us ‘“threatening murmurs” and “an energy that finds no outlet.” I admit the “threatening murmurs,” but I deny that this country belongs to corporations and money loaners, and I sug- gest that there is room enough and that there are opportunities enough in the United States for our existing population multiplled by four. If the facts were as Mr. James assumes, still the remedy would not be found by destroying the Government and conquering the East. The remedy for internal trouble iIs absolutely in our own hands. In the Scriptures it is frequently sald in substance that a man who cannot control himself is un- fit to control others, and this elementary truth is applied to nations. If our people are not fit and able to govern themselves at home, they are not fit and able to govern aliens or themselves abroad. No man can hon- estly deny the underlying evil to which Mr. James alludes, in the sense that we are not what we ought to be and have not reached the conception of citizenship which our Government requires. But the complete and final answer to the use which is sought to be made of this fact as an excuse for treasonable revolution, followed by emigration, is that the power to ex- tirpate this evil is and always has been in the people themselves, without seizing the Philippines or in any other way imitating the decadent con- tortions of ancient Rome, or doing more than dropping an honest ballot at each election. The attacks upon corporations and trusts have , largely failed, sometimes because they ought to fail, but more frequently be- cause their assailants were cranks or corruptionists, without dignity, ower, or solid backing. After much observation and some experience, I gs,ve been driven to the conclusion that, In our country as elsewhere, “Judgment must begin at the house of God,” and that, when our citizens practice and enforce individual integrity among themselves, in their sev- eral occupations and at the polls, corporations will be at once protected in their legal rights and divested of all illegitimate power and influence and corruption will cease to be a dominating quantity in American politics. Americans have no manacles on their limbs and one of the evidences of our freedom is that they can travel and settle where they please, but they find no part of the earth better than thelr own, and they may wander, but they almost universally return. ~ Their main difficulty is not so much to take care of themselves, as to prevent the intrusion of inferior races, to whom scanty bread and poor shelter are the sole objects in life. If we have not already reached, we have approached dangerously near, the abandonment of the Monroe doctrine. I believe that the revo- lutionary wave should now be stayed. I am an American in heart and in soul, and my faith concentrates upon the American Republic, which shall never, with my consent or without my protest, be used as a mask for imperial colonization or sink to the level of Asia on the one side or of Europe on the other. We must lift humanity up to our ideas and not drown ourselves in a glittering sea of barbarism, irradiated by the false sun of military glory. PUBLICOLA. e T S T BT T L T T his name and that of his father is pro- ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CARRY ARMS—F. E. M., Oak Hill, Napa County, Cal, ‘“/Carry Arms” is no lunger a pn.r{ of the United States tactics. BCHLEY—L. A. W., City. A son of the that commodore, now in the army, says nounced as if written Schi sound of “i" long. W TR the BUNKER HILL—Subscriber, City. The answer in relation to the battle of Bunker AROUND THE CORRIDORS. is at the Dr. Hurbert of Stockton Russ. W. H. Hatton, a lawyer of Modesto, 18 | at the Lick. Judge S. F. Gell of Salinas is staying at the Occidental. H. A. Bingham, a wine merchant oft Co- lumbia Hill, is at the Lick. Louis Kahn, a grain dealer of Oalkdale, is registered at the Palace. W. S. Jenkins, a mining man of Sono- ra, Is stopping at the Grand. Colenel D. P. Fairbanks of Petaluma is registered at the California. Daniel E. Hayes, State Prison Com- issioner, is at the Occidental. G. F. Packer, a rancher and capitalist of Colusa, is staying at the Russ. George E. Goodman, a banker of Napa, and wife are staying at the Palace. W. A. Harris, a prominent attorney of Los Angeles, is stopping at the Palace. P. Hirschfeld, a well-known merchant of Los Angeles, is stopping at the Lick. W. Forsyth, the well-known ralsin- grower of Fresno, is a guest at the Occl- dental. Hugh Duffey, vice-president of the Cort- land Wagon Company of New York, is in town. o O. B. Smith, manager of Wellman, Peck & Co.'s branch business in Fresno, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Morton Mitchell arrived in this city yesterday and are stopping at the Palace. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Crusz, is registered at the Palace. ' H. M. Yerrington, president of the Car- son and Virginla Rallroad, and wife are at the Palace. s Mrs. D. L. Munro of Stockton has e her home with her mother, Mrs. Breck- inridge, Berkeley. Captain J. B. Overton, superintendent of the Virginia City Water Works, is staying at the Russ. Thomas Moore, & prominent lquor mer- chant of New York, and wife are regis- tered at the Baldwin. Dr. Hawkins, City and County Corener, has left for Lake Tahoe, whers he will remain for two weeks. Hugo D. Keil, vice president and as- sisting manager of Goldberg, Bowen & Co., is at present in New York cty. 7 Mrs. John P. Jones, wifs of Senator Jones of Nevada, and daughters arrived yesterday from Portland and are stop- ping at the Palace. Dr. J. T. Arnest of Tennesses, during our Civil War a surgeon in the Confed- erate army, and at one time one of our most prominent grain merchants in this city, is quite ill at St. Luke's Hospital. His many friends hope soon to see him again on California street. —_——e———— THE TEMPER OF THE MEN. Hobson’s Dispatch From Prison: My health continues good. Feel no un- | easiness about me. _ Reginald Ronald, of the Rough Riders: It was a regular lead syndicate. Captain Capron's Dying Words: I‘}’uw are the boys fighting? Captain Philip, After the Texas Was Hit: The only assistance we require is some explosive shells. — e ——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® s s Judge J. M. Thomas, & ploneer of Kan- sas, and a man who has held many im- portant offices in the State, was drowned recently while fishing In 2 small stream. Speclal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * High prices were paid for pictures by Millais at the Renton sale inp London. “The Order of Release” was bought by Mr. Tate for $25,550, and later presented by him to the Tate National ~Gallery. “The Black Brunswicker” brought $13,54; “Yes,'* $5110; “Afternoon Tea,” $6643, and “Urquhart Castle,” $3321. ———— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softesis the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. 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At No Percentage Pharmacy. ———————— Gustav Freytag's posthumous papers will not be published for some time, as the novelist’s widow, who was his second wife, and his son by his first marriage are at law as to who shall supervise the edit- ing. ADVERTISEMENTS. OYAL BAKING POWDER con= tains no acid except that derived from grapes, and is pure, healthful, sure in making the finest food, and of highest practical strength. Baking powders made from harsh, causticacids are low- erinprice. Theymay puif up the dough, but they will ruin the stomach. Hill was answered in this department July 15, under the head of *Victory."