The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1898. JLY 31, 1808 SUNDAY & JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Maip. 1874. THE €AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year: per montb | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.... Address All Communi PUBLICATION OFFICE ..... One year, by mall, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE... 908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. '‘WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. -Marquette Building | €.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | © open untli 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clook. 621 McAllister strcet, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open uptll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open untll i0 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open unth 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untlt 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o’clock. | | AMUSEMENTS, | e | Gallant Surrendel Alcazar t Lynne Moroeco's—“The Two Orphans * Tivoli— The Beggar Student.” Orpheym—Vaudeville. - The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Sutro's Baths—Swimming. | El Campo—Music, dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. Excursion to Santa Cruz. | Keereation Park—Baseball this afternoon. | Coursing—At Union Coursing Park. | Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park. | Central Park—Horseshoeing Tournament. | State Fair—Sacramento, September 5. | | AUCTION: SALES. By N. E. Clark—Monday, August 1. Hand-painted Chins, at “1080 Mariket street, at2and { p. m. O having read and digested an editorial in this | paper devoted to discussing “yellow dog” | gubernatorial candidates, calls in imperious tones for the name of the man whom we desire nominated by the Republican convention. Of course it was impos- sible for the Post to award us the credit of sincerity. | It could see nothing in our “historical inquiries” ex- | cept a desire to kill off all other candidates and place | before the convention an aspirant of our own choice. | However, we do not complain of the Post's mental | obiiquity. Having been retained by “Lou” Brown, | it-is quite natural that it should get red in the face | when “yellow dogs” are mentioned. But notwithstanding the ungenerous construction | which it places upon The Call's motives, we are not | unwilling to take our esteemed contemporary into our confidence. At the same time, however, we shall in- | vite the confidence of the 150,000 Californians who | every two years yearn for a chance to vote the Repub- | lican ticket, and who do vote it when permitted by the ‘political bosses. The Call has no candidate for Governor. We do not intend to have a candidate. We design devoting oufselves in this campaign to the success of the Re- | publican party. We believe that when the govern- ment is administered by self-respecting, independent | Republicans it is administered better, more cheaply | and more honestly than when administered by dema- E gogue Democrats, rattle-pated Populists and hungry | office-seekers. We are, therefore, anxious to see the | Republican party succeed at the coming election, and all. bur “historical inquiries” have been and will be | devoted to directing the minds of its leaders into chan- nels which promise succes: History is fruitful of lessons. The man who does not study it with profit is a fool. Having lost three out of four campaigns by nominating weak candi-‘ dates, what sense is there in the Republican party try- | ing another experiment of that character? The Call is a Republican newspaper, and whoever i is nominated for Governor by the convention which | meets at Sacramento on the 23d of August it will sup- | port him. Even if our loyalty to Republican prin- ciples did not compel this course, even if we did not | think that any Republican in the gubernatorial office | wotild give us better government than we could get | out of a Democrat, the presence in the contest of | Judge Maguire at the head of a Democratic-Populist gang would force us to fight the battie, no matter how hopeless it might be. But The Call, although a Re- publican newspaper, bound in any’ event to join the | obedient ranks and shoot in the direction of the | enemy, has a right, and it is its duty, to advocate a policy which will produce success. We know the Republican people of California will | no longer elect “yellow dog” candidates. We have cited history to prove that they have refused to do so in the past. Why, then, should we not tell those | who are making the gubernatorial “fights” of the factionists, country politicians and railroad hacks that they are leading the party to defeat? If there were a law to forbid this proceeding would it not be our duty to violate it? What we say, and what we shall continue to say, regardless of any construction that may A PERSONAL INQUIRY. UR esteemed contemporary, the Evening Post, be placed upon our words by the boss-ridden corporation press, is this: The Republican party can no longer carry elections in Cali- fornia with “yellow dogs” at the head of its| tickets. In the voting booths, alone with their bal- i lots, their rubber stamps and their consciences, the people are uncontrolled and uncontrollable. = They must be given candidates in whom they have confi- dence or they will trample party labels under their feet and bury party organizations in a grave of ballots. * This is the truth, and it is mighty. If all the bosses of all the parties were to cough simultaneously they could not cough it down. e An Illinois regiment is in danger of being mus- | tered out of the service because of the row it is mak- | ing over not being sent to the front. The men in that | regiment_have their first lesson in military duty to | learn. Soldiers camped in San Francisco for many | weeks have been just as eager to be sent, but all the time they have realized that they were soldiers. When Lochner shall bring his suit for false im- prisonment he ought to direct it against Chief Lees rather than against the city. The Chief is monarch | of the Tanks and Lord of the Small Book. How- ever, Lochner would be foolish to court more no- toriety. He is at his best in seclusion. ‘While schemes are being organized for direct lines between this country and the Philippines of course no shrewd capitalisi overlooks the fact that San Fran- _cisco is the natural home port. i —— | richest of the tropical islands. | people on a fresh partisan alignment and give | military and the civi N THE TERMS OF PEACE. HE assertion of the right Tculonial expansion go together. The western world has reached with greedy hand for the prize of Oriettal commerce. It made the commercial center of Europe in the city of Wisby nearly a thousand years ago. It built Venice on the marshes and gilded her palaces. It made the Neth- erlands rich enough to be a prize to Spain. It has poured a Pactolus stream into England since Clive and Hastings turned a commercial settlement into political empire and the scepter of the Moguls was broken. Between that Oriental and tropical commerce there is but little difference. They originate in great natural resources wrought upon by a teeming popu- lation. The Spanish war has brought within our reach the They are peopled by races ill fitted to govern themselves and not amiable to any form of government, and most orderly under military restraint. It is proposed to hold these possessions perma- nently as colonies. The case should be stated fairly. We spent blood and treasure in a war against the misgovernment of these colonies by Spain. They have fallen from her weak hand. Shall we keep them? If we do, their affairs must be administered; they must have government. The extension of our commerce to them will require that person and property must be sternly protected. The administration will of necessity be largely military. Qur army, now consisting of 280,000 men, will be maintained at that figure. The navy will be in- creased to about 700 fighting ships of the model and armament proved by our recent trials to be the best suited to offense and defense. The military and naval career open to our young men will be greatly ex- panded. West Point and Annapolis will be occupied with their full quota of cadets, and each graduate will immediately take his station. The profession of arms will offer prizes that have heretofore been sought in law and medicine. In the palmy days of Rome’s policy of conquest law and the army offered the prizes of ambition. It will be so here, if we enter upon expansion, because the army and politics will absorb the interest and monopolize the attention of our people. The government of our colonies will increase the power of the executive. The issues in the Philip- pines alone will for years call for constant adjustment and readjustment. They will be entirely novel and cannot be settled by Congress. Their treatment must be executive. The rebellion there has not been of conquest and | against the exactions of the civil power of Spain, but against the primacy and the cost of the ecclesiastical establishment, which is the largest owner ot realty in the islands, and has administered not only internal asfairs, but has controlled external commerce as well. The treatment of this ecclesiastical establishment will produce important changes in our domestic politics and raise questions at home which will divide our own an impetus to politics as a profession. The building of ships and equipment and mainte- {mance ci a large army will impart a profitable ac- tivity to many lines of construction and manufac- ture. The fortifying of these islands will call for a large expenditure profitable to American contractors. As their possession puts us in direct rivalry to all other nations, the causes of quarrel with them are marvelously multiplied, so that the country may not lock for long periods of peace. The much talked of British alliance is brought into focus by this policy. Great Britain wants a neighborly neighbor in the Asiatic tropics. Manila is within 600 miles of Hong- kong, the seat of her power in China. As our colo- nial policy will be an exact copy of hers, the two na- tions will pull together, and English aspirations in Egypt and Africa will be put nearer to realization. The whole bent and tendency of the American mind will be changed. The very education of our people will be affected. Tts purpose will be shifted. Our people will find their highest aspiration to be the contemplation of physical power. Our policy will be an will be subordinate in re- spect and influence to the military man. Our Na- tional Government will acquire that virility which comes of the concentration of power that is insepar- able from militarism. The people will see that greater promptness in Federal action that is possible only when freed from the peculiar restraints provided in the constitution. Domestic disorders will be more promptly quelled, and the rights of property will feel greater sectirity. These may be fairly put among what is to come, if the terms of peace include our permanent acquisition of the colonies of Spain. e BARRY GROWS AMBITIOUS. ATURALLY the desire of Congressman Ma- guire to be Governor is of some importance. It creates a vacancy in the House of Repre- sentatives. Toward the prospectiva vacancy patriots are swarming, and at the head of the lot is James H. Barry. He is known as editor of the Star, a paper which derives a large part of its income through, furnishing a place of concealment for the class of ad- vertising the advertisers wish to keep from publicity. Barry has also become known by previous efforts toward the same goal. He tried to b& Congressman from the Fifth, the district in which he resides, but | not having the ghost of a show has decided that he will represent another district, a procedure somewhat out of the common and unlikely to strike favorably the aspirants whose territory he intends to invade. In considering the chances of Barry, the character of the man naturally must be weighed. It will be re- membered that he advocated the killing-of the Penn- sylvania troops because they responded to the call of the executive when murderous rioters were abroad with rifle and torch. He wanted them slain like vipers. Later these same troops came here on their way to the Philippines. Why was he not consistent to the extent of slaughtering at least a few of them? There are matters about which he is consistent enough. He steadily refuses to pay taxes, his theory being of the Wells-Fargo variety, that the other fel- low must do the paying. He now owes $568 in taxes. H's course is directly contrary to the statute. In fact, he is a law-breaker, and glories in it. His prop- osition to become a lawmaker, as an instance of cheek, is almost unique even among poiiticians, who are pot usually hampered by modesty. Once a man met Barry and spat in his face. The individual doing this was a bully and a gun-fighter, and yet the tendency to resent an indignity so gross wculd have awakened in any one but Barry a spirit of active resentment. Barry wiped his face, and the incident was closed. The unfortunate affair earned for him the title of “Cuspidore,” which would not be a happy thing to carry to Congress, nor even into a futile campaign. Still, if the Democrats choose to nominate Barry, that is their funeral, and as it would also be Barry’s 'the scheme has elements commending it to the judg- ment. Barry has been Maguire's mouthpiece, but Ma- Camara’s fleet seems to consist of a few old boats | guire has brains, albeit perhaps muddled at times. and a desire to keep out of sight. : a ] A mouthpiece in action, with no brains behind it, is not pleasing to contemplate even as a remote pos- | BB BB R R R IR LU U RRBVLERRIRBRUALBNNLRIIBRNER sibility. BISMARCK AND HIS WORK. ( \ carded but not a superfluous veteran on the stage, Prince Bismarck is dead. The man who the eyes of the world has passed away, and now it is for men of the younger generation to study his his mighty work, and endeavor as best they can to appraise his character and his service at their true Whatever view may be taken of Bismarck as a man, there will be little or no difference of opinion con- achievements in the domain of international politics. He ranks among the greatest men o an age prolific formed a nation, Cavour reorganized a nation, but | Bismarck created a nation, and the creative act was amazing steps of uninterrupted success that the worker stands out before the world as a unique figure, his time. ‘} The salient feature of Bismarck’s character was a | Lincoln, Cavour'and Gladstone were essentially men of our time. In no other age could any of them which he actually accomplished it. They were con- stitutional statesmen. They guided rather than ruled | | influence upon the popular mind than through courts or armies. They were educators of the masses, as it of the better, if not the greater, part o. the citizens of the countries whose affairs they administered. rarely consulted the Germans or cared for their opinion on anything he decided to undertake. He | government is one that consists of a king and an army, and that great strokes of statecraft are to be popular discussions, but by blood and iron. To this | frank audacity of speech his actions corresponded. He army through methods of blood and iron, and having | made it undertook to rule it in the same way. complish in life is not a just one, but it is the best that is known to men. We can never be sufficiently any worker, nor with all the forces that oppose or help him, to accurately appraise the real value of his | can only assume that where the results are great the | worker must have been great, and must, furthermore, | By this rule Bismarck will be given in future histories | a rank as high as has been universally acdorded him whether he was or was not too arbitrary, too domi- neering, too despotic, too harsh. His work attes will be that if such a rough giant worker. established | the unity of Germany it was simply because the con- | leader to make a nation out of-them. i Of the domestic policy of the. great Chancellor large all over it. Such a bungler was he in the adminis- tration of the empire his genius and his courage had him in disgrace, without suffering in the least from the consequences of the act. Bismarck’s true career French Kings at Versailles King William of Prussia was crowned Emperor of Germany. No Emperor nor far-reaching act,and the world, which will benefit in the : future as it has already done by the unification of remember only the sterling virtues which made him equal to the task of creating a nation and raising it FTER lingering for years in retirement, a dis- during the last generation filled the largest space in_ career, note the methods by which he accomplished worth. cerning the magnitude and lasting good of his of great men. Lincoln saved a nation, Gladstone re- wrought out by such Titanic forces and by such conspicuous and dominant among the strong men of | certain medieval quality of mind and temperament. have achieved the work he performed in the way by the people. Their power was exerted more as an were, and took no step that did not have the sanction It was not so with Bismarck. The grea: German | frankly announced that in his judgment the only true achieved not by speeches, parliamentary debates and made a united Germany by means of a king and an The rule of judging men by the success they ac- acquainted with all the circumstances sun’uundingi personality in the results that follow his efforts. We have used the right means for performing the work. | during his life. There will be 1.0 haggling over his wisdom and hi#strength, and the final conclusion | ditions of the people required exactly that sort of little need be said. The word “Failure” is written created that a youthful Emperor was able to dismiss closed virtually when in the gorgeous palace of the court historian can rob Bismarck of the glory of that | Germany, will overlook his faults and his failures and to the first rank among the powers of the earth. COMMERCIAL INSTINCT IN DISGUISE. T the meeting of commercial bodies in this fl vity Friday night there were speeches far bet- ter never uttered. Passing over that of Hugh Craig, who is so often in the public eye and ear that in a measure he loses impressiveness, an excerpt from | the remarks of Captain Charles Nelson may be con- sidered. In endeavoring to show that the Philippines | should be held he said, “The wreck of the Maine | with the murder of our brave seamen in Havana har- bor was an act intended to lead up to this great ad- vancement of civilization.” You don't say so! According to this theory an overruling Providence desired the United States to grab everything in sight and had to blow the idea into our understanding with dynamite. True, the poet says; “God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform,” yet con- ceding this, it is hard to believe that the most mys- terious way would include centuries of brutality on the part of a nation; culminating in assassination and wreck. There would, had Providence been directing affairs with specific view to the condition now brought about, have been a quicker and neater method. As a matter of fact the inspiration of the meeting sprang from the commercial instinct, which is noth- ing but the hope of gain. There is no use posing. When business organizations desire an expansion of territory for the good it will do them in dollars they might as well say so, and not try to pass themselves off as missionaries bent upon spreading any token of civilization unless they can get paid for the token in cash. ; An important feature apparently wholly overlooked is that we have not yet secured the Philippines, and while the fruit seems almost ripe, there are others out with their poles. If the statement that 150,000 men will be needed first to defeat the Spaniards and then to subdue the natives be true, even the commercially inspired may well stop to ask, “Will it pay?” S —— People who do not win in the lottery may find a grain of consolation in the experience of a man and wife in this city. They had lived happily until they had the misfortune to hold the capital ticket, and be- gan quarreling as soon as it had been cashed. Now the winning will probably have to be devoted im part to settling the question of alimony. According to a paper published across the bay Peter Anderson has gone to work after seyeral weeks’ nursing of a finger blown off on the Fourth of July. Perhaps Peter knows what is best for him, but a blown-off finger would hardly seem to be worth all this trouble. A man supposed to be the nephew of King Hum- bert is'in love with an American girl. The fact that | have nothing to say as to the direction | feelings shall be a joy of mine. ety WITH . ENTIRE By HENRY JAMES. FRANKNESS. L R-R R R B R R R R RN RN NN R RN RRRRIRRLRRIRNS It seems to me that the Rev. E. E. Dodge does not know to which side of his daily bread there adheres a com- forting coat of butter. The same is true of any preacher who rises to rail against permitting women to have a volce in church affairs. In my worldly judgment, if the Rev. Mr. Dodge suc- ceed in eliminating the feminine ele- ment from his flock he will have no flock. Men go to church because their wives want them to go. The women constitute the life of the institution. They have just as much right to be heard in the direction of its affairs as they have to give orders for dinner at home. But for the women the Rev. Mr. Dodge and his kind would be hunting Jjobs, and mayhap have to be content with one tending 'to callous the palm. The material church would vanish, and the pastor thereof become a blessed memory. The claim that women should of an organization so strictly their own strikes me as absurd, and the nerve of the minister making it inspires awe. Surely Mr., Dodge does not think they would be so silly as to sit under the drippings of his wisdom, listening with meekness to all he might have to say if they were to be treated as inferior. I have enough respect for the sex to believe that they would resent so marked a slight. Will the reverend gentleman please tell me what it is women lack? Is it soul, or is it intelli- gence? In ‘the meantime, sinner though I am, I have the grace to be ashamed of him. CEE Y ‘W. D. Crabb has written some poems which he calls “Lyrics of the Golden West.” The neat volume in which they appear has been handed to me with the request that I notice it. I decline to do s0. Just because the Local Lyre man of the Visalia Delta stirred me to ad- miration it does not follow that spaca can be devoted to ordinary rhymesters. Furthermore, Mr. Crabb may be a good citizen, and to refrain from hurting his One disgusting feature of the war has been that for everybody who has won eminence either through victory or de- feat, up has sprung some woman to tell how at some time she had been wooed of him. While most of these females are fakers, and entitled to no respect, I confess to an absence of admiration for such as may be telling the truth. ‘When a man falls in love with a woman he pays her a compliment by that act, and if he vainly offer to becomé her husband, surely a worthy woman would treat the matter as sacredly confiden- tial. As to the Californian girl to whom Cervera Is alleged to have written let- ters, I am inclined to believe that she has been led by some trickery into be- trayal of the circumstance, provided there is such a person and such a cir- cumstance. It must be borpe in mind that the letters were published in a paper which is wholly unscrupulous, and which I verily believe would rather tell a stupid lie than an interesting truth.. For the benefit of the chance stranger within our gates it may be added that the paper is the IIxaminer. PO An exchange, commenting on the subject of suicide, concludes: *“Iglean my Information from the New York ‘World.” Herein the exchange errs. To glean some things from that sheet is possible, but information is not in the lot. It is sufficient to say that the World is almost as unreliable as the New York Journal. P e A paper published in Monterey, Mex- ico, does me the honor to quote from these columns, but ascribes the author- ship to Frank James. I beg to state that Frank is another fellow. Siela I have an active sympathy with the noble sport of coursing. It is a little hard on the hares, but they would die some day anyhow, and in the mean- time chew young trees, as well as prop- agate the active flea, which needs no encouragement. The charge has been made that the sport is not refining, but this has never been sustained. Only recently the official known as the “slipper” made a mistake which great- ly exasperated the ladies present, who, by his error, lost the bets they had placed. It is true that some of these ladies cried “Hang him,” but this was only due to the first impulse. Their gentle natures prevailed. They did not hang him. * iy Cranks who write to me will please inclose postage, not that there is to be any reply, but stamps are always use- ful. . ‘When I speak of the Supreme Court it must be understood that it is always with the greatest respect, in fact a feeling akin to awe. So far as I have been able to ascertain by observation the duty of this august body is to up- set verdicts carefully arrived at by the courts below. That a tribunal fitted to do this is beyond adverse criticism and recks not of commendation i1s a plain proposition. Still, I have ven- tured to be surprised that absolutely no regard seems to be paid to consid- erations of justice. The question ap- pears to be not as to a man’s guilt, but as to whether his guilt has been es- tablished by certain formulae. The truth is of less importance than the manner of its setting forth. “We find that while the demonstration that John Smith stole the purse is com- plete, the trial court failed to establish the fact that he stole it from a cross- eyed woman in the dark of the moon.” This seems to be about the style of the average reversal. I do not presume to find fault with it. In the absence of legal training, it may strike me as pe- culiar, and yet be eminently sound, and sustained by an array of precedents reaching back to the dawn of creation. Another thing over which I have been at times impertinent enough to enter- tain mild doubts is as to whether the fact that a verdict has been rendered in the court of ge Wallace is suffi- cient ground f overturning it. It is certain that the sentences imposed by Judge Wallace, in instances in which no appeal has been given the su- preme bench an opportunity to monkey judicially with them, have done more to check crime in this community than any other single cause. He has been severe, but always justly so, and when convinced that a criminal needed heavy punishment has not hesitated to inflict it. It was he who sentenced two notorious forgers to prison for life, the gir! is poor naturally throws a shade of suspicion over the suitor's claim to royal connection. o | they having proved themselves unfit to be at large. That they were guilty of the specific offense charged, there w has never been, I believe, a shadow of doubt. Yet they are to have a new trial. Why? Because they want it. I exult in a strength of character such as is not above stooping from the bench down to the humble scoundrel and telling him not to be discouraged, that there is hope, and that in the fu- ture it may not be his to pine within four walls, but perhaps to taste free- dom and forge some more. $ e a Relatives of Miss Schley owe it to that young woman to tell her that no necessity for putting herself on dis- play has arrived. She is the young person who went to Madrid with in- tent to inform Sagasta of the beau- ties of peace, and planned that after having converted him she would go to Washington to instruct and edify the President. Most properly she was bounced from Spain, but is believed to still be at large. If she is determined to go into the show business she seems adapted to the humble role of museum | freak. With President Love of the Salute Your Enemy with a Holy Kiss | Soclety, and Professor Norton, who is | a choice specimen of the rare Copper head, and Larry Godkin as spieler, it might be possible to draw a crowd. The | exhibits would have to be shown be- hind a screen, or each spectator on ar- rival searched for dead cats. SR I People who go to the trouble of read- Ing this column are cautioned to re- member that it embodies the personal opinion of one man, and one whom cranks every week take the trouble and go to the expense of calling various kinds of an idiot. Any opinions ex- pressed here are in an environment of due humility. T realize that the possi- bility of being mistaken inheres as to all human judement. Therelore when I say again that the United States must take and keep the Philippines it is with a distinct knowledge that other people | who seem to know more appear to hold | the contrary notion, and may be cor- | rect. T am unable to see how we can | help keeping the islands. It must be remembered that the war with Spain is a humanitarian affair. We went into it with a lofty idea of freeing an op- pressed people from servitude. What was true of Cuba was equally true of the Philippines. There the natives were in rebellion against a hateful tyranny. If we were to surrender them back to the tyrant and refuse to sur- render Cuba we would thereby declare our insincerity, and show thht ve went to the rescue of Cuba merely because it was so near us that the turmoil of conflict was annoying. Now that Spain’s hold on Cuba has been broken we must take care of that island, for it is inca- pable of taking care of itself. The same rule forces us to take care of the Phil- ippines, which are equally helpless. If we do not do so now, and our army and navy be withdrawn, it will simply delay the inevitable. In a short time we will be obliged to go back with an- other force and complete the work of emancipation; either this or we confess that we were meddlers and had no busi- ness to interfere.’ : . . It is always my aim to be moderate in expression. Therefore when I say that Judge Gummere of the New Jersey Su- preme Court is a fool, that he has less brains than the mosquito whose buz- zing annoys him, and whose bill, T hope, will render the life of the Judge a bur- | den to himself as it must be to all about him, I am studiously avoiding any un- due emphasis. This person, probably presenting the aspect of a man, has set aside a verdict of $5000 against a rail- road for the killing of a child, the ground being that a child is of no pecu- niary value to the parents. I may have erred in calling so brutalized a creature a fool. Rather, he is a hardened and vicious knave who should be whipped from the bench, kicked from the pres- ence of decency, and followed by the anathema of every one whose heart has ever been touched by the vrattle of babyhood. He says, this drooling, driv- eling disgrace to civilization, that a son, far from being of value, is an expense until he goes off to shift for himself; that a daughter is a larger expense un- til she marries. The inference is plain that parents whose expenses are les- sened by the thoughtful killing off of their offspring should consider them- selves indebted to the corporations do- ing the killing, and I have no doubt, were the corporations to bring action, they would be sustained by the un- speakable Gummere. To analyze a doc- trine so monstrous is almost impossi- ble, because the instinct refuses to be- lieve that a Gummere can exist. For a judiclal decision to declare that a chilq, who to its parents is as bone of bone and flesh of flesh, has no value is to prove the Judge a pervert. True, this value cannot be adequately measured, and yet it should have some definite recognition In law, else are we brutes, each parent freely entitled to kill his own, and culpable if he neglect to do so. New Jersey is known as the rot- ten asset of any corporation which has the price, but above all the reek of cor- ruption, with a distinct stink of his own, his hands in the corporation strong box, his foot on the grave of a murdered babe, Gummere can be dis- cerned. It is my belief that men more worthy are hanged every day, and that the penitentiary convict not his moral superior is not within four walls. Hell is full of better citizens. I look forward to the time, and hope it Will not be long, Wwhen the devil shall come to the front door of his smoking tenement and with a grin of appreciation and welcome say, “Gummere!” The portrait of General Shafter is still above the door of the Examiner, wreathed with fading laurel. Doubtless there is a desire within that place of purity and joy to turn the pleture to the wall or send it with the next batch of sworn circulation to the garbage crematory. But this would never do. It would be placing the editorfal heart on the sleeve for daws to peck at, and besides constitute an indecent exposure. So the paper ig beginning to attack Shafter, taking its cue from the New York publication of which it is a feeble echo. It was Shafter who strictly in line of duty had to tell the public that the editor in chief of both these daily villainies had lied. It was the same officer who later had to bounce the Journal-Examiner men, bag and bag- gage, out of Cuba because of their malign interference and constant effort to stir up strife. Now he is being de- nounced in lare~ type, of course. Mean- while the picture remains over the door and 't be taken down lest there re- sound the merry ha, ha. But while | Andy cannot teks it down, I can imag- | surgeon. ine him going out during the night and making faces at it. o R There should be a law against George Alfred Townsend’s writing any more poetry. His latest metrical cuno" is entitled “Europe to Watson's Fleet. 5 & am confident Europe never said an{r- thing of the kind. If it did, there’s your casus belli, and trot out your big- Zest guns. With a feeling of being particeps criminis, I quote: « | Atlantic, it rings with hosanna That follows ye in from the west; Ye alight on the world like Diana With her bow and her clusters of breast. Never having ‘had the pleasure of seeing Diana in her justly celebrated act of alighting on the world, I can only hope that she alighted with both feet squarely under her. But just how Watson’s fleet is to imitate the act i3 not clear. 1f it alight on the world it will have.to be yanked off by tugs and if it happen to hit a hard spot there will be nothing left but wreck- age. Neither does the idea of “clus- ters of breast” appeal either to a sense of the artistic or to a moderate knowl- edge of anatomy. I would advise Di- ana, in the friendliest spirit, to see a If her condition has been correctly portrayed, she needs prun- ing. But let us cull new beauty. George Aifred breaks out in another spot: Long England has waited his sister, At Mediterranean’s gate, Where Spain, like a hideous blister, Holds Ceuta her dungeon of state. Perhaps there can be no objection te terming Spain a hideous blister, but for a blister of any kind to be holding @ dungeon. of state is out of line with precedent. The truth is that a rhyme was needed for sister and the poet vio- lated the specifications of his license, and made the rhyme. I do not un- derstand why England should be re- garded as masculine and this country as feminine. TUrlcle Sam wears panta- loons. However, to proceed: Republics of Greece and Italia, They spangled the sea with their hate, Their history long saturnalia, Their jealousy green as their fate. Now what do you think of that? Jealousy is popularly supposed to have an emerald tinge, but a fate the color of grass is something new. Perhaps Ge Alfred has been confused by reading of yellow journalism, pink teas and purple cows. Possibly there lin- gers in his memory a recollection of some town painted red. I would like to see a picture of a green fate. Again, he intimates that his Uncle Sam ought to wear skirts, as note: Come, dame without scepter or altar, And show us the light that is truel Sit down by the strait of Glbraltar And tell us if Jesus be you. ) I charge George Alfred Townsend with incipient paresis, and submit the case without argument. NIGHT IN CAMP. | My tent is closed against the wind, Which whistles overhead; re crouching near the stove, My partner is in bed; The candle sheds a welcome light On such a cold and stormy night. Of all the thirteen men in camp But one is now awake; The others dream of far-off homes Or claims they liope to stake. I build a castle in the air And find my. loved ones gathered there. HOWARD V. SUTHERLAND. Dawson. CITY TRIPS FOR COUNTRY CHIL- DREN. A very excellent custom is followed out in Denmark. The city children are taken on regular visits in the country for the benefit of their health, etc., and the pro- cess is then reversed, the country_ chil- dren being taken to the city, in order to widen and broaden their little minds, en- abling them to become aware of so_many things that would be for their good that otherwise they might never learn. e e S MILITARY CYCLING CONTEST. In the English military cyeling competi- tion for theé year for the Wolseley cup, teams of men and a section com- mander_ ride about forty miles over a ve-and-take road course, and afterward fire a certain number of rounds at various ranges at field-firing targets. The idea of the contest is to test the relative shoot- ing abilities of the teams atter so long & bicycle ride with a time limit. AL R I e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.® —_——— Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public men_ by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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