The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1898, Page 6

7 UGUST .3, 1898 ‘JOHN' D.. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. Address ‘All: Communications. to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. SUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Frena Telephorie Maln' 1865. EDITORIAL “ROOMS..;... ;.. 217 to 221 Stevenson Strest S Telephone Maln 1574. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) K ‘served by carrlers: In this city and surrounding towfis for 15 cents a-week: By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents: - THE WEEKLY CALL, OAKLAND OFFICE...iionno: NEW YORK: OFFICE.. .“Room 188, World Building DAVID. ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. ’ SO, o CHICAGO OFFICE Marquctte Buildlag C.GEORGEKROGNESS, Advertising Representative. 44444 .......One year, by mall, $1.50 <ereseee.:908 Broadway SRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open uritll 9:30.0'clock. 387 Hayes street, open. untll $:30_‘o'clook. " 621 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 ‘Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock.. 2991 Market street, corner Sixtéenth, ‘open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Missicn..street, ‘open untll -9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open. untl -9 o'clock. 505 Polk street, open until- 9330 o'clock.. NW. corner Twenty-second ans Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. MENTS AMUS Colambia—*Ths Masked Richélten Boninie Sooiland * . Tivoli—Alda Orpheum-— Vaudeviite The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudevills and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olymipta—Corner Mason and: Eddy -streets, Specialues. Sutro’s Bathe—Swimning. El Canipo—Music, danéing boating. fishing. every Sunday. AUCTION. SALES. By Frank W. Butterfleld—This day, August 8, Furniture, at 848 Mission street, at11 6 ¢lock, THE PROMOTION OF DEFEAT. THE plans:of the ,p}r’)‘ni{mers of Republican defeat this year -have now hecome sufficiently apparent | to enable:iis to comment upor them intelligently. | Perhaps nothing that we can say will produce a modi- | fication of ‘these’ plans, but we can at least Jay the | foundation for:later ‘on fixing the responsibility for | THE DEMOCRATIC PREDICAMENT. 1 l T is announced that in every respect the work and action of the coming Democratic convention have been concluded in advance. lcommittces and organization are all arranged. So | complete is the programme in -every detail that the | party organ in this city is able to announce results | now. Never before in the history of parties in this | State did a committee seli-constituted so ' com- | pletely gag every voice in a party and substitute its | own intrigues for the popular will, as has been done | by the committee of one’ hundred. arbitrarily ap- pointed to usurp the place of the legal organizatioa in this city. The power which it usurps, to appoint the delegation-from San Francisco, gives it control of the convention. The three members of that committee | who are the trustees of its authority are'the dictators | of the party in the State. For selfish personal pur- poses of their own they have arranged to stifle Dem- ocratic principles under novelties accepted from the crank wing of Populism, and every individual Demo crat finds himself robbed of his birthright to a voice in the action of his party. He is stripped of every privilege but one, and that is the casting of his vote usurped his rights and violated every principle of seli- government and fair play. 5 At the Presidential election of 1896 there were cast in San Francisco 30,298 Democratic votes. Granting | that all members of the committee.of one hundred are legal residents here, 30,108 of those voters are disen- franchised in their party, disinherited of their right to a voice in making its candiddtes and expressing its principles, expelled from its councils and denounced by their own organ as unfit to be trusted in.the small- est particular in the manachent of its affairs. The Pinto junta has ddne this, and has held 30,198 vaters of the party up to public derision and distrust. The party organ which is responsible for this usurpa- tion and tyranny does not pretend that it has been done legally, nor in a spirit of respect for fair play, but that it is an exhibition of power—the unlicensed | use of the authority of a committee which permits no discussion of the rightfulness of its action. It need { hardly be said that a party which submits to such usurpation, bows its neck to the yoke of such-humilia- tion, pockets humbly the insult to its integrity and in- telligence, is a party unfit to be trusted with the offi- cial_respensibility of the State and city. No matter how violently these intriguing conspir- THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL The ticket, platform, to put in political power the conspirators who have | WELLS-FARGO FOLDEROL. OTWITHSTANDING exposure; the Wells- N Fargo Express Company persists in its effort to be dishonest. That it should be awkward:is not stirprising, for this corporation has until recently borne an enviable reputation for being square. It had never been-subjected to temptation, and its repute re- "maincd unsullied; temptation came in the form of a | chance to cheat the Government out of a wa" tax, and it fell, the clatter of its downfall being considerable. Now its protestations of good intent are recogmized | as the merest folderol. i J This corporation has claimed the right to force its patroris to pay the tax levied upon it-by the Govern- ment. . Patrons have submitted, knowing themselves to be the victims of an imposition, and yet unwilling to make a cOntest over a matter that seemed small un- less the aggregate was considered. But the company } was also willing to cheat the Gavernment as well as customers. It made a‘proposition to The Call to take from-it'a wagon-load of: bundles, and by the. hocus- ocus of tying a string about the lot, or. throwing a | tarpaulin over them, designating the shipment as one bundle. That The Call refused to:be accessory.to this form of crime it is hardly necessary to state. On the contrary, it demanded that each bundle be regarded as separate, represented by a bill of lading, and that |'the bill of lading receive'a stamp at the expense of the corporation, as is the word and intent of the law. | This démand has been complied with, a circumstance | showing the company to know that it is wrong. | To illustrate the small meanness of the conduct of | the Wells-Fargo people attention may be called to ; the fact that when its cars are robbed the machinery of state is at once set to work to catch the robbers. | This’ the corporation regards as a right, and it has | never been denied. Nor is there any delay until the | robbers have been landed in the penitentiary. . Now, in an underhanded fashion, Wells:Fargo is itself en- | gaged in robbery, and the president of it asks that nothig be done about ‘it until the cases of other | robbers have been decided. A number of such cases | have. been passed upon, and in every instance the | corporation has been worsted. Instead of yielding | gracefully Wells-Fargo asks for still more delay, as | appeals have been taken to the -United States Su- preme Court. Everybody knows that a decision can- | not be expected for three years, that in' the mean- | time the war will be over, and the character of the | decision a matter of the utmost indifference, as dur- disaster. Next 10 apologizing for and. explaining a | ators may protest in their platform, nor how florid | ing the interval the patrons of the company will have Republican defeat, ‘the most pleasurable thing in life | their professions of regard for the public welfare, nor | borne all the expense. for a party newspapér is to be able to accurately place | how lurid their challenges to influences which they de- the blame_ where it belengs. ‘ nounce as inimical to the good of the commonwealth, | The plans of thie promoters of disaster this year ap- | the system they have instituted, if it pass into a pre- pear to comprise. the forcing upon the southern por- | cedent by indorsement at the polls, has in it the germ tion-of the State of a candidate .fcr Governor which | and easy possibility of every political evil that can be- | it does not ‘want. . The politicians and business men | set-a State. | of Southern:California ‘are anxious to secure the elec- | The people need no self-chosen mouth to speak for | tion of a Repithlican siicéessor to Senator White. A tthem. They have mouths of their own. They know | representativé in: the.upper house of Congress of the | the good and evil which parties are organized to sup- | same politics as . President McKinley. would, they ¢port and oppose.. They see in the characters® and | think, be a desideratum. devoutly to be wished. “Sen- | records of these usurpers nothing that should exalt | ator Bulla has béen naméd for the position. This | them for either wisdom or virtue. They have no | gentleman'is-riot a great man, .nor a man with a very | record of fidelity to principles. or pledges. Among | long ‘political record, but he is a Republican, an ac--| them are men who have been all things by turns and tive worker, ‘a legislator of recognized ability and | nothing long. In times past they have torridly de- | There is no legitimate ground for postponing action. ' If the corporation has an influence sufficient to prevent District Attorney Foote from haling it into_court, there are other methods. At least the facts can be laid before the Federal Grand Jury and every offending official indicted. ~ This will be done unless Mr. Foote shall bestir himself, something he displays no visible inclination to.do. In a private capacity citizens can find a measure of protection in sending by mail all packages weigh- ing less than four pounds. The method is both safe and economical. In some manner the corporation must be brought to realize that it is not greater than the law nor above the people whose patronage- it so- licits and whose pennies it illegally exacts. , WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1898 AN :AMERICAN OR BRITISH POLICY—WHICH? personally -popular.”™ In the Federal Senate, it is thought; he-could render very efficient service to the southern portion of the State. cause he is'a’bad. man or unfit for Senator; but be- they “desire. ‘the -position . for Mr. de | Young, late generat . of the . Midwinter Fair.j Ii - the candidate--for Governor is “taken' from | the. north General de. Young's ambition - will be | nipped _ in . the- -bud.” If, on-the other cause hand, that | individual is taken from the south, the bodkin will be ; thrust into-the boom of Senator Bulla. Hence the defeat promoters are asking each other the important | question's, Whence shall the Governor come? = Shall | he be a southern man-or, a northern' man? ° Shall his name be ‘Gage (south). or Pardee (north)? Shall he represent the “Senatorial -aspirations of General de Young or some other man agreeable to the pro- moters? It does not seem to have occurred to-anybody to ask what sort of a ‘man in either case the State con- vention is going to be requested to nominate. So long as he is geographically located to suit the defeat promoters, it. appears, he is all right. At t stage of the game, however, we beg to re- mind: these: gentlemen that their candidate for United | States Senator will not have much of a chance if the | Republican' party loses the State fight. When the | organization indulges in the luxury of nominating a weak and unsatisfactory candidate for Governor, the entire campaign assumes a character which damages the whole ticket. Tt is just as easy to lose the Legis- Jature by bad management as to lose the governor- ship, and, it must be conceded, with a Democratic- Populist Legislature in power neither. General de Young nor any other Republican could get to the Senate. We trust the Republican convention will dis- pose of these defeat promoters at an early stage of its deliberations. What the Republican masses want this year is a good State and city ticket from top to bot- tom—in short, strong and active candidates, who can be elected. With such a ticket in the field the Sen- atorship will take care of itself. HEROISM OF THE WOMEN. HERE can be no question but the women of Tthe country have arisen to the occasion of war as bravely as the men. - They could not go-:to the front themseives, but freely they have sent those dear to them, and to the comfort of all they have contributed. whatever they could. ~Now the girls at Mills College do nut propose to fall behind the procession. . Their patriotism has been: aroused. They want to ‘do something for their country, and so they contribute their butter. For a week they will take their bread butterless, and if it prove un- palatable, will even consent to eat cake, the large sum thus saved being devoted to the soldiers. Let none speak lightly of the sactifice. College girls like butter. They will consume it: regardless of the fact that it is bad for the complexion, that the gastric juices have a hard wrestle to ‘get away with it, that by eschewing it entirely they would be better off. Just what will be accomplished by the ‘deprivation for a whole week has not been figured out, but such a concession ought to lift a considerable burden from Uncle Sam. -Imagine a school full of girls going absolutely without butter, eating their morning toast dry, munching the loaf just as’it comes from the bakeshop. There’s patriotism of a high grade. Such girls are an honor to their country, fit to be the wives of warriors and the mothers of patriots. Z Without any desire to interfere with military mat- ters, it may be suggested that with Merritt calling for more men the New York regiment ought to be per- suaded to cut short its picnic season at Honolulu. Captain Bob-Evans of the Iowa explains his re-, | independent position. nounced the railroad, and, getting office thereby, have been subservient to its purposes. In whatever | position any of them has had a chance to demonstrate i But the defeat promoters. object to ‘Bulla, not be- | his' seli-boasted virtue, it has been - found lacking. | | They have sought office cravenly at the hands of a | party boss and discerned his imperfections only when refused. - They have flattered and banqueted © him when in; power, and were.first to spit upon him when he fell. # 5 Under the law of natural selection none of them could ever reach leadership. In a fair and natural write platforms, for they have no conception of party principles. They would not be consulted about party their personal interest. Many of these had their little political training outside of the party whose control they have usurped, and many others have. deserted ‘it to follow any side movement that seemed to be equipped with a barrel and a bung-starter. Like their pinto candidate for Governor, they have bolted their party when its best men were the cus- todians of its confidence, and have returned to its ranks when its scum boiled to. the top. The predicament is a warning to men of all par- ties. The independent voter who frequently turns the scale at elections cannot afford to support such a scheme at the polls, for its method is at war with his The home rule Democrat, who believes in civil equality, cannot indorse usurpation which poisons the principles of home rule and tries to stalk into power over its deathbed. Republicans have set for them the double duty of in- fluencing their party to the path of success and walk- ing therein to victory, that the methods of usurpation may be rebuked out of existence by defeat, the only club that warns the usurper to drop his stolen power that its owners, the people, may recover it. WHO PAYS THE TAXES? HEN the war tax went into effect and the WTclzphone Company found that it could not avoid payment -of its share it announced with a blare of patriotic fervor that it would contribute to the common fund. There was no way apparent by which .it could evade doing this, and some people, paying their own taxes without a murmur, failed to see wherein the Telephone Company could lay claim to extraordinary virtue for doing what others did with never a thought of winning praise. Lately there have. been. reputable people to The Call office with complaints that when tney have used the telephone lines from peints outside the city they When they requested an explanation they failed of ggt;ing it. The subordinates were merely acting on orders. Z 3 “To be plain, this Telephone Company, after an- nouncing that it would obey the law, even at expense to itself, thus reaching a moral plane above that ordi- narily assumed by a cerporation, proceeds to take the amount “of the tax out of its patrons. It does | not strike the observer:that sucha course is patriotic enough to brag about. As a matter of fact, the Tele- phone Company will be obliged to change its tactics. That tax_ is for it to pay, and as it only holdsits rights -by suffrance, it will-pay or be subjected to a curtailment of .the privileges it enjoys. People who patronize the Telephone Company pay taxes in other ways. They do not grumble at these, | but.they do not propose in addition tp pay the taxes of a corporation which boasts that it is paying its own. Spain is said to be gloomy over the proposed terms of peace, and it is no violation of confidence to remark that the longer. she holds out the more the gloom will be accentuated. A wise course would seem to be to disarm Aguin- ligious views in general terms by demonstrating that he hasn’t any, - d aldo. If he could be given a toy pistol and a tin trumpet he would be satisfied, and far less dangerous. candidates, for their view of eligibility is limited by | a2l have been charged a sum beyond the ordinary tolls. ’ d PORTO RICAN PATRIOT. HILE Garcia in Cuba is skulking and-protest- W ing against our military manners and methods, and Aguinaldo in the Philippines is threatening l resistance and bloody War fathér than $ubmit. to the | authority of our army, it is-gratifyirfg to'learn that in | Porto Rico at any rate there are dignitaries who ap- preciate us at our true worth and hail our advancing | troops as liberators, friends and brothers. | . | The proclamation issued by Francisco Miaga, the | party organization they would never be called on to-| vy 140 of Yauco, is indeed a notable document both | in language and sentiment. It breathes a patriotism | thoroughly American. Hardly in the United States | themselves could there be found a man who is more deeply imbued with the spirit of this hemisphere or | expresses it with more force and vigor. Senor Miaga, | though of Spanish blood and holding a Spanish office, is proud to be an American, and hails with gladness the war which has separated Porto Rico from all con- nection with a European kingdom and made it po- | litically as well as geographically a part of the West- ern World. In the ardor of his American patriotism his lan- guage mounts up almost to the heights of poetry. Proclaiming to his fellow citizens the arrival of the United States troops and the establishment of their authority over the city, he says: “To-day the citizens | of Porto Rico assist in one of her most beautiful feasts. The sun of America shines upon your mountains and valleys this day of July, 1808. It is a day of glorious remembrance for-each son of this beloved island, because for the first time there waves over her the flag of the stars planted in the name of the Government of the United States of America | by the major general of the American army, Senor Miles. Porto Ricans, we are by the miraculous in- tervention of the God of the just given back to the bosom of our mother, America, in whose waters na- ture has placed us as a people of America.” $ This address, so earnest and so eloquent, cannot but be gratifying to the people of the United States. It demonstrates that in some of the most intelligent minds in the West Indian islands there exists a senti- ment fitting them to share in Amerlcan responsibili- ties and making them worthy to receive the honor of citizenship. In closing his address with a date line fixing Porto Rico as a part of the United States, the ardent al- calde may have gone too far. It takes something more than a proclamation from the chief magistrate of a town like Yauco to annex a rew territory to the United States. There is much in the way of diplo- macy and treaty making to be done before that can be accomplished. No one in this country, how- ever, will find fault with the ardor that prompted the use of the phrase. On the contrary the universal voice of our people will declare that as.for Senor Frantisco Miaga, Alcalde, Yauco; Porto Rico, United States of America, he’s all right. g Miles seems to be advancing rapidly, but he ought to catch up with the Spaniards engaged in murder- ing the people of Porto Rico and explain to them that they are committing capital offenses. For the man Rypcszynski, arrested for forgery, there must-be a shade of sympathy. ' A’ man possess-’ ing such a name would naturally rather write any other than his own. We hasten to congratulate the King of Spain on his recovery from the measles. Had he been located at Camp Merritt the chances are he would have had no such luck. = el Peru’s threat to frighten us will cause no loss of sleep. Some of our yacht clubs may bz forced to make a counter demonstration, but nothing more se- | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. cle in regard to the chain made up for the | auxiliar page 9. 5 o B55 feet; City Hall, Philadelphia, 537 feet 4.12 inches; Cathedral at Cologne, 524 feet 9 inches; Tower of Balbec, 50: feet; St. Peter's at Rome, 469 feet 5 inches; Cathe- dral at Milan, 438 feet; Cathedral at Cre- rious seems likely to result. Spain wants peace, but it must get over the notion | that peace is to be offered as a favor. mona, 392 feet; Cathedral at Florence,. 3% feet 5 inches; Pulitzer bullding, New York city, 375 feet; Cathedral at St. Petersburg, 363 feet; St. Paul hattan ' Life. Imperialism Death to the Constitution. To the Editor of The San Francisco Call—Sir: after reading your excel- lent editorials of the last week on the question, which has now bécome im- mediate, of acquiring Asiatic. territory and "Asiatic communities, T.feel im- pelled to request an opportunity to add some closing words to my previous communications on this important subject. When the thirteen colonies re- volted. they were dependencies of Great Britain, subject to all the grievances which were catalogued in the Declaration ot Independence, and the underly- ing principle assertéd in their proélamation and :subsequently entrenched in the constitusion and in the consistent practice of the Government, aided by the Monroe doctrine, so far as official action is concerned, down even to the present moment, was the right of sovereignty, inherent in each individ- ual man, and limited only by the moral law and the necessities of aggregated populations. The three phases of this fundamental truth, incorporated into our institutions, were liberty, law and order. i Apart from the'incident of the Maine, which was rather an incentive than a cause, our just complaint against ‘Spain was that, in the island of Cuba, one of its. dependencies, in the most aggravated form, it was contin- ually perpetrating, amidst other cruelties which were unique, the very acts that had justified our separation from Great Britain, and which furnished irresistible temptations for breaches of our neutrality. The primary object of the- war, ‘as avowed, -was to secure to the people of Cuba the power to en- force their right of self-government. Leaving motive out of the question, our attitude was not unlike that of France toward the colonies in our struggle with Great Britain. It is now deliberately proposed that, as a result of a war, thus designed to harmonize with our political institutions, we should stultify our entire history by doing the very things against which we are professedly fighting and exercising the very powers we-axiomatically denied in the most powerful document that history records. It seems absurd to suppose that any Intelligent citizen could serlously contemplate the.conversion of the Philippine Islands into American States, or that they could be held except as dependencies, by right of conquest, and through the exércise of force, which would involve the repudiation of the very groundwork of our political system, as well as a distinct vielation of the Federal constitution. This part of the subject I have already briefly dis- cussed. But it.is in place here to inquire, if we should keep the Phi’ ppines, * what shall we do with the nine millions who have not the faintest conception of American institutions and American civilization; and who are aliens, not only in locality, but in their physical, moral and intellectual constitution, and, ‘still more pointedly, how will we govern a million of Mohammedans? ‘We kept Utah, which is on this continent and surrounded by American States and Territories, under Federal control for forty-six years. or more, because, among other things, polygamy could not be tolerated within the republic. Shall we abolish polygamy in the Philippines? If:we legislate.to that intent, are we prepared for the possibility of a holy war? The absurdities, as well as the practical revolution, the terrible evils, the blocking of human progress, to which the dream of congquest would inevit- ably lead our country, are so numerous that they could not be compressed into a volume. But, there is one additional feature wrapped up in the proposition ‘which, so far as I have observed, has not yet been considered, and to which I desire to advert. If we abandon the Monroe doctrine and our constitutional system, and enter into the conflicts of imperial colonization, we will: play second fiddle to Great Britain, which will virtually obliterate all consequences that flowed from the suecess of our Revolutionary War, and that country will,at leastin a moral and intellectual, and to some extent in a phliysicdl sense, recapture its lost colonies. Is this idea visionary or the language in which it is conveyed too strong? Let us see. Understand plainly that I am not only no enemy, but within just limits, an ardent friend of Great Britain. I believe the destinies of the world, the loftiest achievements of humanity, are to be worked out by the British and American Governments; and ‘the composite race—not Saxon, Norman nor Celt, but a mixture of the best strains of blood uporn the earth —by which those Governments are sustained. But, as I have already en- deavored to prove, the missions of Great Britain and the United - States, though interdependent, are distinct, each. from the other, and it is against the unnatural blending of these missions that, first from an American and second from a cosmopolitan point of view, I so energetically and uninter= mittently protest. For centuries, and upon a plan steadily and successfully improved, imperial colonization has been the policy of Great Britain, and her possessions, which are not governed upon American principles, but through legislation adapted to the special conditions of each, extend to every portion of the globe. She can handle paganism, Mohammedanism and every as- pect of undeveloped humanity, without violence to her own political sys- . tem. Her peculiar function, therefore, is to prepare communities, by grad- ual and elastic treatment, for ultimate freedom and civilization, and, in the dim future, even Asiatic populations may become fit for American institu- tions. Meanwhile, however, the name of Great Britain is associated with a rapid approach toward justice and liberty at home and intelligent coer- clon abroad. 2 But the province of the United States is to raise humanity to the stand- ard of a government resting upon immutable sanctions and ideally perfect . and we must perform this work on the American continent gnd among our own people—we must bring theory and. practice into ' correspondence .on American soil—or our experiment will fail, and that, too, at the very time ' * when its triumph seemed to be assured. I repeat what I have said before— that facts and policies, within constitutional limits, may multiply and change to an indefinite degree, but we cannot alter the fundamental law or abandon the wisdom of Washington and his associates without revolution- izing thé Government, and we cannot annex and hold the Philippines, or ac- quire and govern.any dependency, ineligible to statehoed, without treason to the constitution and treachery toward the human race.. The exact point I desire to emphasize, without elaboration, is that the United States should rigidly adhere to its own theories and practice in order to hold the predominating influence which .it should exert in the future his- tory of the world, and that this attitude would be defeated if, through any sentimental considerations, we should allow ourselves to be seduced into an alliance with Great Britain in which both should pull together in the di- rection of imperial colonization. I propose that the identity of each shall be preserved, and that the twoinfluences shall not be merged into an inartis- tic combination in which the face of Britannia would obscuré the features of Columbia. The missions of the United States and Great Britain are separate. If the existence of either Government were in peril, the other might well rally to its support. An alliance for this purpose not only would be tolerated but would probably be right. It is a very different thing, hawever, to permit our national individuality, so to speak, to be oblit rated, the War of the Revolution to be recanted, and the United States to become absorbed in a scheme of imperial colonization by or through British influences. The astute and thoroughly trained diplomatists and statesmer. of Great Britain—not her deepest thinkers, who are in touch with genuine Americanism—have availed themselves of the honest cordiality now existing between the two nations to encouraze and stimulate the conception of manifest destiny, which has at least entered into the minds of the American people and which class or local interests and superficial views of trade and commerce may suppor‘. This means nothing more nor less than the subversion of our system and the relegation of our country to : .ubordinate position, through a dazzlin- and baseless dream. If our constitution were laid bod- ily aside, as Sir Boyle Roche once proposed to lay aside the unwritten British constitution which interfered with suggested legislative measures, we could not hold and govern dependencies in Asia or in any other part of the world without an alliance with Great Britain, in which our part would be seconlary and subordinate. Such a policy would inevitably mean the ascendency of that great empire in the twentieth century and the forfeiture of our proud attitude as the exponent of the only true and dur- able form of government—that of man by men—which has been actually framed and tablished. ¢ It is clainced that the tide of public opinion in favor of the retention of ' the Philippines has risen in every part of the United States and is flowing ‘with irresistible force toward Washington. I canrot believe this assertion. In all our history, settled and definite public opinion in our country hu.' been right, but simulated public opinion, sounded and illustpated in a thousand forms, by self-interest, by cupidity or by recklessness, is one thing and settled public opinion I another. This was sharply illustrated when, In 1896, the naiton rang with the false cry of “free silver at 16 to 1. a phrase, by the way, which was an absurdity, as silver at “16 to 1" couid not be.“free.” Yet the election proved that the .people had not lost their heads and were true to their constitutional obligations. We all know th extent and depth of British influences and how easily resolutions can be prepared an” adopted, which are used as if they were an expressi s public sentiment that in reality is not behind them. The merch o_tn - the United States, the merchants of San Frar ‘sco, are numerous, Bin e gent.and patriotic, and, were they actually consulted, would often '. n:f#l‘. an apparent opportunity for immediate profit for the benefit of their it and of humanity at large. It does not follow that they are fa.ithtmc]ollnt!'v resented by the cut-and-dried action of a few men In a Chamber ¢ t¥ rep- merce or a Board of Trade. I will venture to claim, on Ntadint of Com- knowledge of and respect fcr them, that if our local merchants. wn s up and carefully deliberate upon the question of imperial éol ’:l‘e to take presented, for instance, in the Philippines, they would be touod zation, as ator Hoar of Masrachusetts, and with the mass of intelligent apy Lo C ing American_ citizens. 5 gent and reflect- I believe in my country. I belleve in the overshadowin, nent influence of American .nstitutions, of American poli civilization. Let Great Britain fulfill her destiny 3 up the United States like Aaron’s rod. ) _— g and pem’:‘u» 'Y, of American but let her not swallow PUBLICOLA. dral at Madgeburg, 5 feet: reckels azlfinf¥&rzzet;t°§:.‘ Mark's, 316 reetc 7 wah.e .C_g }t}lnll. San Francisco, ; Capitol at Washnigton, 287 e.bs.tfitn Ca-itol, Sacremento, M'S)efiet on the dome; Porcelain tower Teet; tower of Pisa, THE CHAIN—A. C. D., City. The arti- ice plant in the East appeared | in the San Francisco Call July 20, 1898, TALL STRUCTURES—S. A. M., City. The following is a partial record of the tall structures of the world: Tower of Babel, 680 feet; Washington Monument, GOVERNMENT LANDS—Subscriber, City. This department cannot undertake to ““tell a young man which county in the State of California is the best one to take up Government land in,” for the reason that it does not know if the young man wants to ralse cattle, enter upon agricul- tural purauits or dig into the ground for minerals. The young man should place himself {n communication with the fol- Towing 1. offices of the State, and each, on the ' payment of Sl will furnish London, 2 855 feet; Man- York. 3 Ne feet: Cathe- a plat of land open to pre-emption. - The you man .can then have before l}lm‘ all the information about :thé unoccupied lands: of Californig, and then, if he Se- lects a county, he should, before.taking up a locationgview-the same, because he might make election and then when. he came to settle upon it find it eithér bar- ren, or ‘on the.top .of - an inaccessibis mountain. The land offices are at Hum- boldt, Independence, Los Angeles, Mar ville, Redding, Sacramento, San Fr: cisco, Stockton, Susanville and Visalia. SEASICKNESS—J. S., City. ' There ‘is no remedy which will answer in all cases of seasickness. Some people will always be sick. A dose of thir sixty or ninety. graing of bromide of sodium, three times a day, is recommended. A recumbent po- sition is the best suited to a patient who is suffering from that trouble. Every ef- fort should’ be’ made to keep the deck and a waterproof blanket will be found of ‘use. Keep the bowels free and try to eaf. Crackers, beef tea and olives are best relished. THE ORIGINAL OLD ‘GLORY—J. W, City. The story of. the. origin of Old Glory as-.applied’ to the American flag has been told in a fragmentary way, but the following told by Rev. John Wright Buchanan js the most complete account that has ever been given to the world: I opened ‘the other day what proved to be an unusually interesting piecé of mall matter, for out fell a small square; cut from a United States flag, accompanied by a letter stating that the inclosed .was a plece of the original flag named OId Glory. It was from a friefd, to whom it had been given by a brother of the man who owned the flag and who christened it Old Glory. The possession of so valuable a relic led me’ to investigate its Listory, and frbm 'the history of the Driver family I have gleaned the facts. On the 2ith day of February, 180, the Twenty-fifth Brigade, Union army, en- tered Nashville, Tenn. The Sixth Ohio Regi- ment, which “was the first to land from the transports, marched directly to-the Capitol, hauled down the Confederate flag which Wi flying there and holsted their gwn regimieni colors-in its stead. It was a-glad hour for many a loyal heart in Nashville, but for none ladder than for the stanch Unionist, Willlam Driver, an old sea captain, who had come to Nashville a few vears previous to'the outbreak of the war. There was only one drawback to the joy of the occasion for such as loved the Stars and Stripes. . The flag was small and the Capitol was high. Oh! for a flag large enough to proclaim the Union to the whole city! There was opesuch flag in the city, and but one and_only one man knew where it was to be-found. Until that day, in the Intensity of feeling which war creates, it would, have been the destruction: of the flag and possibly of its owner had its whereabouts been kmown. That man was Captain Driver, who lost no time in informing the commander that if he wauld fur- nish him an escort as protection he would pro- duce a much larger flag.. It had been given him, by_friends in old Salem to fly from his ship'and a worthy name hagd he attached to it. Not'a Fourth of July or Washington's birthy day or_one of his own birthdays had passed since Captain Driver . came to Nashville “but that old Pag had floated from his house, until the Confederate sentiment had become .0 strong that Old_Glory could no longer be dis- played with safety. and_even its possession brought danger. Part ‘with it the captain would not; S0 he sewed it within the com- forter_of his bed, where not even the mem- bers knew of its whereabouts. In vain did the nelghbors inquire for and even search ‘the house for it. With eager hands on that day in February did_Captain Driver tear open the comforter, and taking the flag from its place of conceaiment display it to the soldiers form- ing his escort, who greeted it with-three times three and three more for the loyal captain. To the Capitol marched the capiain with his es- vort, bearing the sacred flag. He asked per- misélan of the colonel of the regiment to ralse it with his own hands. He then climbed out on the Qome-of the Capitol, risking the danger’of a shot and flung Old Glory to the breeze amid the cheers of the troops. and the friends of the Union. When' the flag was returned to the captain he prized it more than ever for it had served not-only himself, his ship, but his country. In 1882, after cutting out pieces of it for members of his family he presented it to Mrs. Harrict Ruth Cooke, ‘who compiled the history of the Driver family with insttuctions to make such disposition of ‘the. flag as.she thought best, after his death. - Mrs. Cooke accordingly pres sented |+ to the Essex -Institute of Salem. where any one may inspect it. e e & " Cal. glace fruit §0c per Ib at Townsend's.® Special information supplied dally to B“""“‘ houses and public men by the ress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main i Stationery and Printing. Newest tints and shapes in fine writ- ing papers; Koh-i-noor pencils,. Water- man pens, blank‘books, “flag” - tablets and envelopes, playing and tally cards We do all kinds of printing. Visiting cards_and Invitations a speclalty. San born, Vail & Co. ——— AN APPROPRIATE INSCRIPTION. On one occasion a well-to-do cobbler, who, in the course of his long wedded life had buried three wives, above whose graves he had eérected handsome head: stones, on resolving not to marry a fourth, instructed the sculptor to engrave under the name of the third the brief but proper inscription, “A Shoemaker's Last.” ———————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Socthing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures' Wind Colle, 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. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ @ bottle. — e CORONADO—Atmosphere 1s perfectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists common further north. 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