The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1898 Call e = JO"HN [; SPRECKELS, Propretor. { _Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephe Maln 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7T to 22| Stevenson Street | Telephone Malp 1874, ] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SURDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns | for I5 cents @ week. By mail $6 per year; per montp | €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.59 . DAKLAND OFFICE... cereseseesss-908 Broodway YELLOW LIES. HE war has made the most astounding revela- Ttions of deliberate lying and deception prac- \ ticed upon the American people by the yellow press. The military problems ensuing upon the declara- tion of war were light and easy compared with those which come upon a declaration of peace. The two yellow and besotted papers of Hearst, re- inforced by the New York World, told the country that the Cubans had an organized government, with a fiscal bureau, a system of public schools, a judicial establishment and all the muniments of a state fit to take its place among the powers. They demanded belligerent rights for this Cuban government and fol- lowed this by a demand for its recognition outright by the United States. Senators and Representatives REW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... ..Riggs Houss C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE..... -Marquette Bullding | €.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. 1 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery strezt, corner Clay, | open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untls 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk strect, opem | untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. | AMUSEMENTS Columbia—“The Masiea Bail" Aleazar—"Richelien Morosco's—~Bonnie Scotland ~ Lucta di Lammermoor.” Orpheum— Vauderville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Caunon, the 813-pound Man. Olympla—Corner Mason and EAdy streets, Spectalties. $utro’s Baths—Swimming. Becreation Park—Baseball this afternoon. Coursing—At Unfon Coursing Park. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Pari. El Campo—Music, dancing,boating, Ashing, every Sunday. Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville. Opening £aturday, Septembder 3. te Fair—Sacramento, September 5. ONCE MORE THE TELEPHONE. /\/\A.\'Y things have been charged against th.el telephone, and most of them with justice. It | is an irritating machine, with a voracious ap- i petite for nickels, a squeaky voice, and about the manipulation of its central mechanism there has been usually so notable a lack of intelligence that patrons have ventured to make remarks concerning it. The telephone has given to mankind an impetus toward a state of chronic profanity, but only recently has it gone so far as to drive anybody to attempt suicide. To be sure the young woman in question was in | love, and therefore not to be held strictly ac- countable, particularly as she wanted to converse with the man in the case. She essayed vainly to gain his ‘ear through the medium of the telephone. The cold and impassive device, in no whit moved by the ardor of her yearning, refused to aid the cause of her courtship. The telephone merely rattled and Is, or brought back groaned, called for more ni to her pearly, listening ear the iterated and chest- | , “Line is busy; call again.”” This was c a trial. “For goodness gracious sakes!” | exclaimed the young woman, gritting her teeth. | Agair Life | seemed to throb along the wire, and with hope re- | rewed she placed the trumpet to her ear. Then she | was told that the insatiate demon was in need of a | nickel; she contributed. “Call again,” remarked thé | machire. “Whirr, buzz-z zip.” Let us not be harsh with the girl. angry she just had to shoot something, and there | t a liivng mortal there but herself, Across her nd flashed a desire to kill the President, to chop | down the poles, to poison the operator at central. These worthy ambitions impracticable. grabbed a pistol and shet herseli. She didn’t shoot straight and will get well. But if she had died wouldn’t the telephone company have been respon- A there was a stir in the telephone box. She was so | were She McNAB FOR CONGRESS. sible? HE possession of political power is often said Ttr, turn the heads of those who attempt to exer- cise it. We can place no other construction upon the announcement that Mr. Gavin McNab in- tends to run himself for Congress in the Fourth Dis- trict than that the success which has attended his bossship so far has affected his brain. Not but that Mr. McNab would make an excellent Congressman. Indeed there is every reason to believe that the exer- cise of his peculiar talents upon the House of Repre- sentatives would confer upon California the distinc- tion of possessing a Congressman even greater than Maguire—if such a thing is possible. But we cannot understand why the whispering boss should desire to descend from the proud pedestal of Democratic dictator in San Francisco to the humili- ating position of submitting himself to the people. What right have the people to pass upon the political claims of Mr. McNab so long as those claims are conceded by McNab himseli? The voluntary abdi- cation of power which his candidature for Congress will entail is the most extraordinary case of self- abnegation on record. The first Napoleon's resigna- tion of the French crown at Fontainebleau is not at all comparable to it. However, it will be well to encourage Mr. Mc- Nab’s ambition. There are in the Fourth Congres- sional District upward of 30,000 voters. We venture to say that 95 per cent of them are anxious to see McNab’s name upon the official ballot. The source of this desire we shall not attempt to fathom. Whether the voters of this district desire to elect McNab by a majority which will go thundering down the ages, or whether they are curious to see exactly how the whispering boss would look ap- pealing to them for support, we do not know. But as to the yearning we can speak advisedly. In fact we will increase the percentage. We will assert con- fidently that out of the 30,000 voters in the Fourth District at least 20,500 are frantically anxious for McNab to run. We think that under the circum- stances he ought to run, notwithstanding he may be compelled to relinquish some of his prerogatives as dictator of this city. It is seldogh that the: public is so unanimous in its desire to get a chance at a man. Hence we trust he will be successful in backing the State convention delegation. It is not often that we care to justify high-handed political methods such as Mr. McNab now proposes in his Congressional fight, but if ever the end justified the means in any case it will in this one. By all means let the Democratic State delegation be packed in the intcrest of McNab. Were proclamations issued by Spanish Governors General as effective as the authors intended there 'wou].d be neither American army nor navy. But as it is the proclamations arc of no particular use unless they may be employed as comic valentines. i YN ity Many of the Spanish are making such a protest over the prospects of peace that there is doubt if they can be induced to enjoy it when it has really arrived. | men we sent there to fight for them, and stole | went to Cuban waters, in Hearst's yacht, as his paid | “commissioners,” and, returning, in the Senate and House these members of Congress tore passion to tatters in describing what they saw. They exhausted the vocabulary of flattery in their ascriptions to the | Cuban government. They said that all it needed was | arms and it would expel Spain from the island. The to Washington in patriotism and to Napoleon in mil- itary strategy. When the President, to whom the situation was known, asked for the power of intervention, these papers and their allies immediately took advantage of his reference of the issue to Congress to insist upon recognition of the Cuban government. They did this in the face of the statement of Fitzhugh Lec that there was no Cuban government nor army. Mr. William J. Bryan appeared in Washington to back up the yellow press, and bugled his followers into | line for recognition, declaring that it would be “good politics.” | San Domingo negro, Gomez, was praised as equal | i | | \ | [ \ i | | | 20 per cent of the vote of the State. INQUIRY. A MATHEMATICAL UR esteemed Republican cousins in Southern O California, as readers of The Call must already be aware, are making preparations to place before the Republican convention which meets at Sacramento on the 23d inst. a candidate for Gov- ernor of California. The gentleman's name is Henry T. Gage. He is said to be a good man, weighing the requisite number of pounds, and possessed of a po- ‘ litical record which is not likely to trouble him. In order to promote the prospects of Mr. Gage our esteemed Republican cousins have abandoned | all claim to the United States Senatorship now held by their fellow citizen, Mr. White. They say (at least those who champion the causé of Mr. Gage) that they will concede this place in the Senate to Northern California, and it is alleged on reliable in- formation that they have made a combination with General de Young, late of the Midwinter Fair, and the Southern Pacific with this concession in view. The programme is understood to be to send Mr. Gage to the executive mansion and Mr. de Young to the Senate. The report, therefore, that the region south of Tehachapi intends to demand both the gubernatorial and Senatorial offices is probably a canard, circulated by Democratic enemies of the orange politicians for the purpose of injuring them in the estimation of their northern Republican allies. Since this arrangement is now perfected and all hands are working energetically to produce a fav- orable result, we are emboldened to ask, on behalf of Northern California, on what ground does South- ern California demand the Republican gubernatorial nomination this year? That region casts less than It cannot, there- fore, demand the governorship on the ground that its suffrages are necessary to elect the Republican ticket, unless it has figured out that the majorities its peo- The Senate thereupon declared for recognition, and | Ple cast entitle it to recognition. only by almost superhuman exertions did the Presi- dent succeed in defeating this declaration. was substituted for it the phrase that “the people of Cuba are and ought to be free and independent.” Then came war. We blockaded the island, shut out | food and munitions of war from the Spanish centers, and sent in food, arms and ammunition to Gomez, Garcia and Maso. We fattened and equipped the “Cuban army” and we starved and disarmed the Spanish force. What has been the result? Gomez had no army. The idle vaporing. He has shriveled into a common from great exploits at the sight of a flitch of bacon or a fresh watermelon. When Garcia's “army” was asked to help our men cut the barb-wire trocha Santiago and assist us in making roads over which to bring artillery, the black rascals replied, “We are soldiers, not laborers.” at | | | San Domingo negro, whose patriotism is diverted | We presume the entire Southern California press There | Will answer in chorus that this is theground: South of Tehachapi being “solidly Republican,” we imagine them saying, the fact that it has had three Governors in twenty years, though casting less than one-quarter the vote, ought not now to deprive it of a fourth. But is Southern California “solidly Republican?” Let us scan the figures for a moment. comprising “south of Tehachapi” are Los Angeles, San Diego. Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, River- boast that if armed by us he would expel Spain was ‘ side and San Bernardino, which poll about 40,000 votes. The following table shows by pluralities how this region has voted at the last two elections: Estee, McKinley, Bryan, 1894, 1896. 18396. | Los Angeles . ..3,636 848 s San Diego. . 870 277 3anta Barbara 343 88 Orange .. 520 230 Riverside . 866 377 Ventura . 303 §8 When our boys had cut the trocha and left their | camp to go into the hot hell of that battle where 2000 fell, Garcia’s noble band stayed behind and stole everything in our camp, including the hospital and medical stores. They killed only prisoners of war, or the naked survivors of Cervera’s fleet as they swam ashore, and used the ammunition we gave them in target practice on the corpses of Spanish officers as they floated in the sea. There was no Cuban army nor government, no school system, fiscal establishment nor judiciary. The | patriots over whom these yellow journals and yel- | | election for McKinley by 400 plurality- ing result when we consider that Bryanism exhausted lower Congressmen wept and agonized robbed the | the medical and hospital stores, for lack of which our boys have been dying, fever smitten, in the swamps | of Eastern Cuba. The President was right and should have been sus- tained to the extreme of his policy. - A number of Congressmen have invited themselves out of public | life and into public contempt by their indorsement of the lies of yellow journalism, and the Government | finds itself loaded with the most vexatious respon- sibility as the war comes to a close. There was no Cuban government. We must lick one into shape. If the Spanish population go into exile in fear of the loot which would follow our military withdrawai from the island, the majority there will consist of negroes and their congeners. What they can do in the way of government in the tropical islands we see exemplified in the opera bouffe states of Hayti and San Domingo, where Simon Sam and General Heureaux strut at the head of the procession, plumed like parrots. Yellow journalism has an account to settle with | the American people. Its Cuban patriots have cost good lives unnecessarily. The co-operation which the yellow press said they were capable of giving has not been offered. Our men went into battle alone, and they sickened alone, and have died alone, hundreds of them, because the “patriots” of the yellow writers stole their medical stores. These yellow journals were in league with the Cu- ban Junta in New York, who had printed nearly a half billion of bonds as a blanket mortgage on the island, to be validated by the recognition which Mr. Bryan said would be “good politics.” The members of this Junta are the murderers of ‘every American who fell in battle for lack of Cuban co-operation, and of every one who has died for need of what Garcia's bandits stole from their camp. It is to be hoped that our experience with this blanket mortgage junta will be the means of denying to spec- ulative conspiracy any future lodgment in the United States. Dr. Arthur Marten sends from the Ukiah Asylum an appeal to be released. Happily the court cannot see a way clear to oblige the doctor, and yet there is no desire to subject him to undue hardship. If he will assent to a transfer from the asylum to the peni- tentiary there will be no particular objection to the change. Let us not be induced to swap the Philippines for British Columbia. Let us not consent to trade them for less than England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, most of India, a slice of Egypt, and such islands as England may happen to possess. While talking through our hats we may as well talk big. Spanish soldiers executed by Cubans for poisoning wells of course deserved all they got if guilty But the accounts come from Cuban sources, and news by way of Madrid is not looked upon with greater suspicion. Developments prove that Captain Glass could have saved his valuable ammunition and taken the Ladrones with a bunch of firecrackers. People who are considering the war as good as over should reflect on the shortsightedness of counting chickens still within the shell. \ There will natiirally arise a question whether the General Dickinson brand of patriotism is really worth $20 83 a day. If the Government wants another war loan it is the sort of Government that can get it. the basis of his claims? Where, may we be permitted to ask, were the Re- publicans of Southern California at the election of 1896> Alameda County gave 7000 plurality for Me- Kinley, and the Republicans of San Francisco, which city gave Budd in 1894 12,000 plurality, carried the an astonish- itself in this vicinity. Can the Republicans of the south guarantee that in the event of Mr. Gage's nomination he will carry the six counties which form We understand that there is a Silver Republican Club in Los Angeles which has upon its rolls 6000 names. All these men, we are informed, are pledged to support Maguire for Gov- ernor. Before this business proceeds further we should be pleased to have some of Mr. Gage’s supporters | inform us as to the exact nature of the confidence operation they contemplate perpetrating upon the north this year. In the meantime we may as well claim, from the face of the record, that Northern California is entitled to name the candidate for Gov- | THE GLORIOUS IMMUNES. ernor in 1808 IVE regiments of “immunes” are now on their I: way to Santiago to relieve the troops who aiter capturing that city have found in the malarial air and the dreadful approach of yellow fever an enemy more terrible than the Spaniard. Th: im- munes have met the dreaded pestilence, have wrestled with it and recovered from it. They are safe from any future attack and to them the guarding of the captured city through the tropic summer will be something like a picnic season of repose and relaxa- tion. These immunes are now receiving a good deal of glory. Since the battles are over, and peace seems near, and since all has been said about Teddy's Rough Riders and other notable volunteer regiments at the front, the war correspondents of the Eastern papers have turned their glowing pens upon the im- munes and are writing them up at a rate that is worth a dollar a line to them if they should ever wish to pose as models of all virtue. It seems, according to the statefents of some correspondents, that to the making of a perfect man nothing more is necessary than to get the yellow fever and then recover from it. As a_writer for The Call says: “Yellow fever works wonderful changes in 2 man, both mental and phy- sical. Every material poison and every other disease germ seems to be literally cooked out of the system by the high temperature, and the patient, if he re- covers, begins life again with a new body, as it were. The change in disposition is alike remarkable. Where before there was a tendency to anger, depression and discontent, there i$ patience and amiability, lightness and buoyancy and contentment with life, without the impairment of any of the better qualities of a man.” Men who have been thus purified should certainly be something extraordinary. Five full regiments of them banded together and camped in victory and glory in an island of the summer sea, where oranges and olives grow abundant and purple grapes hang from every garden wall; where the languorous af- ternoons lull to siestas and the cool nights invite to music and revelry; where the dark-eyed girls are forever singing of love to the melody of guitars or dancing with joy to the tinkling of castanets—there ought to be an idyl almost elysian in its innocent and bright perfection. We may well imagine the happy immunes hailing their generals with cheers and crying, “If this be war, may we never have peace.” Furthermore, if it be proven true that yellow fever does thus destroy every vicious defect, physical and mental, there will be in the minds of the Californians a trembling and eager hope. Fugitive Willie is there, Willie the faker, Willie the yellov’ boy far from home. Now if he should get a touch of the magical fever and have all his old self burned out of him and be cured and come home and pay his debts, quit circulating his garbage paper through the crematory and pull down his siren, what a relief it would be to a long-suffering city. e re— As there are plenty of white men to supply the transports with crews the row that is being made over the inability to get Chinese sailors is hard to understand. The counties | sfisssnaaaasnssfisss&afiu&sns&gasssuaas WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. 58&89&&5&&&5585‘35355figflfisflufifiufiflfififigflufi | One cannot avoid entertaining a feel- | ing of admiration for the query editor | of the New York Tribune. He is ever ready to oblige, and his aim is to | please. Recently, however, a question | was propounded which puzzled him and | he appealed to the public for light. Per- | haps before now he has received it. He | sets forth his desire for knowledge as | follows: “Can any one furnish the | whole of the poem beginning with ‘God | of our Fathers' and ending with ‘Lest ! we forget, lest we forget’?” He explains | that this is especially requested by an | 0ld subscriber. It is hardly necessary | to say that the poem he wants has | title something like “The Confessional,” | and was composed by Omar Khayyam | one day when he happened to be sober. ;It does not appear in the published | works of the gentleman because he | spoke it into a phonograph which he | had purchased on the installment plan ;and which the dealer came and swiped twi!h a writ of replevin while the poem was still inside. The cylinder was late- | Iy recovered ut a village in Milpitas County, Persia, where a housewife was ‘uslng it as a rolling pin, she explain- | Ing that she had secured it from a junk | shop. If the Tribune query man ever gets stuck again I hope he will send | to me direct. . It is all very well, of course, now that Financier Hooley is down to give him a passing kick. His habit of paying a matter of $10,000 for a mere introduc- | tion to somebody with a title was most reprehensible. It was small business. | Why did he not do things on the mag- nificent American scale? He could | have found precedent for paying a mil- | lion or two and throwing his daughter into the bargain for good measure. Let it not be permitted the Hooleys to de- | grade the titles upon which we look | with reverence. . Russell Sage swears that he is worth $30,000. I do not see how he figures this out. His fortune is $50,000,000, or thereabouts, so the estimate he gives the tax collector must be quite apart | from consideration of his wealth; in fact a statement of his personal value | as discerned by himself. There has | seldom been an instance of exaggera- {tlon more gross. On the basis men- €. ‘e tioned Sage is not worth 7 cents, not equal to a canceled revenue stamp. It has always seemed to me a grievance that the crazy dynamite thrower who | took a toss at Sage succeeded in hit- | ting the wrong man. It will be re- membered that on that occaslon Sage used a clerk as a shield, that the clerk | was tefribly injured and that the $50,- 000 beauty refused to pay him A cent, | to liquidate his doctor bills or so much | as send a postal card expressing grat- itude. The clerk, crippled and inva- | lided for life, brought suit and won. There was appeal after appeal, the clerk being sustained in several courts, but whether the case was finally set- tled T do not know. At least it was not settled until Sage had shown him- self to be the meanest man whose | meanness ever got on record. Now he | has the nerve to swear that he Iis worth $50,000: But if Sage intended to convey the impression that his mate- | rial possessions were no more than this trifle, of course he is a perjurer, and under a government with laws justly | and fearlessly administered would be in the penitentiary or on his way thither. It has never been my fortune to meet Robert Sanderson, capitalist, of Oak- land, but I have learned of him and take pleasure in introducing him to readers. It was he who caused a wo- man to be evicted for a trifle of rent, but such things must happen, I sup- e pose, and in this circumstance alone was not the offending. The constable who served the writ was human, wherein he held an advantage over the capitalist. When he saw that the wo- man had a large family, all dependent { upon her, he declined to set her into the | street, but got another house, paid the rent for a month, and moved her into it. Then Sanderson roared. He did not regard an ejectment marked by an absence of cruelty as being the sort he had bargained for. The operation | he considered incomplete in that it did | not conclude with the woman and her children sitting roofless under the night sky, and so he demurred about hand- ing over the fee. I believe he did later make a settlement, although to do so pained him. Sanderson is the sort of a capitalist whose mission in life is to make himself as well as worthy and decent rich men hated. I hope never to have to mention him again, but would joy in the opportunity to record that the-malovelent disposition he man- ifests had resultad in fatal blood pois- oning. It seems that the ministers who once affiliated with the remarkable Edwards Davis have resolved that he can’t play in their pulpits any more until he shall . have manifested a desire to reform. This is all right so far as it goes. They should have said, however, that he must do something more than put on exhibition a desire towards reform. He ought to be made to go to the extreme of_reforming. S o . I belleve that St. Louis is regarded as a center of civillzation of the Mis- souri brand, and accordingly scan its papers with interest. =~ Recently there was recorded in one of these the death of a colored woman who had been not- able for fatness. “She was,” remarks the luminous writer who sets forth the somber facts, ‘‘the largest corpse ever dressed in St. Louis.” Now, there is a specimen of the realistic, showing what a reporter can be trained to do. My judgment, however, would be that he devote his talents mostly to slaugh- ter-house soirees. . ‘When Horace Philbrook attacks the Supreme Court as a set of knaves and scoundrels, his allegations show only that when he was disbarred an act of justice was accomplished. It seems strange that the highest tribunal in the State cannot protect itself against the ravings of this man, especiallyas he has been given patient and impartial hear- ing and his statements proved to be absolutely without any basis but a malign prejudice so absurd as to sug- gest that if he has friends they ought to be looking after him. PEe e . » There should be something done to check the rapaeity of pawnbrokers. I do not refer to such as are law abiding enough to display a sign, pay a license and pass for what they are, but to the men who, making believe they are more bankers than brokers, loan money at extortionate rates. These fellows thrive here like buzzards in Cuba. I notice that one E. W. Lick has brought suit on a note for $500, bearing 5 per cent per month, the interest to be compounded monthly. Perhaps I mis- judge an honest gentleman, for in the reading of human nature I profess no | infallibility, but my idea is that no honest person ever advanced money on thbse terms to the needy, and that no- | body doing so should be permitted to collect more than the bare principal, | and deserves to lose even this. The | State provides that ‘“pawnbrokers” | shall not charge above 2 per_cent a| month, and their business is regulated | with some austerity. There is a large/ class of money sharks made up of men | who are in reality nothing but pawn- | brokers, and the pretense of being | something else but adds to the grav-| ity of their offending. By disguising | their actual status these come under protection of a law which permits the charging of any interest that may be agreed upon, and which, so far as it affords this undue protection, becomes | an Iniquitous law. The unfortunate | forced to negotlate a loan is robbed as | surely as though the more courageous variety of footpad had stayed him on | the highway through the agency of a| pistol. | e . According to th& Stockton Record | they seem to have a patient variety "” pauper in San Joaquin County. In- | mates of the poorhouse have long borne | the trial of diet not to their liking, and | now that they have broken into pro- test, they have from me the fullest measure of sympathy they deserve One woman has told the Supervisors that for breakfast she and the other| guests were allowed nothing but mut- ton” chops, biscuit, coffee, eggs and| vegetables, of course with toast for the more delicate. = No wonder the guests threaten to walk out. Such a break- fast, to be sure, is far better thar family of the average citizen gets, then, when people work, their appetites do not need to *e pamvpered. I would suggest that army rations be issued to the San Joaquin pauper. This might not satisfy, but it would be tolerably apt to kill, and with a transfer to heaven the pauper might again be happy. . By a few strokes of his pen Colonel Roosevelt has scratched his name from the lists of the esteemed, and has writ- ten* himself an ass -mploying charac- ters so prominent that his own impres- | sive verdict must be accepted. His letter to Alger was a boorish imper- | tinence. In this document he praised | his own men, and the world hag also praised them; but he made a nasty fling at other troops, ratriots who had fought as bravely and as well. The act was inexcusable, and will not be | forgotten. The reply of Secretary Al-| ger was a masferly rebuke. I think| I can say this fairly. for I have long| admired Roosevelt, and never was | .y touched before by the remotest im- pulse to admire Alger. Teddy seemed destined for great things, but he has killed his prospects, and no memory of valiant deed performed will remove the | recollection that he insulted some of | the dead in the trenches before Santi- | ago, and tried to impeach the worth | of soldiers who had survived, and even as he wrote were with courage unflinch- | ing facing the plague of fever. For| Roosevelt to seek perferment again would be useless. To his political ca- reer he has chosen to write “Finis.” P et If the young lady who announces that | she has caught a German Bdron will| make known when she has managed to | let go of him, I will tender congratu- lations, but in the meantime defer | them. There are unfortunate associa- tions connected with that title out here. One German Baron went a wooing, cut the throat of his lady love and eloped | with her jewels. He lingered for a while to enjoy the antics of the po- lice, stirred to activity by the impro- priety of his conduct, and then went to Texas, where he partly redeemed him- self’ by suicide. Another was lately charged with murder, but established | his innocence, though not before the fact had been made clear that an av- erage murderer would be more desira- ble. A third was a fraud, his title be- ing bogus, but he cut a wide swath, and is now in an Enelishsjail. So, as worshipfully as the free born Ameri- can views a title the German Baron is at a little discount, unless he comes with a certified pedigree. et It may be observed that comment on the war continues unabated, but the war does not appear to pay to this cir- cumstance the attention that the com- mentators expect. It seems to be set- tled that a campaign cannot be directed by means of the stump of a lead pencil from a distance of thousands of miles. I have been one of many to essay the task, and the only one in the ot to reach the conclusion that it ought to be left to the administration and the army. . . If the police detailed to watch China- town cannot catch the Chinese offend- ers, at least they could do much for the moral betterment of the city by arrest- ing each other and filling the Chief's celebrated tanks with brutal bluecoats. I am led to this conclusion by a circum- stance similar to others heretofore mentioned. Friday a policeman was observed beating a Chinaman over the head with a club, and a passing citizen made bold to ask the reason. He was informed that the vietim was the “lookout” for a gambling establish- ment, and that in case of an attempted raid he would give an alarm. “Then,” inquired the citizen, “why do you not arrest him?" This seems to me to have been a permissible question, but it struck the clubber otherwise. “That,” he responded, taking a fresh grip on his club, “is none of your d—n busi- ness.” The citizen could not accept this view, but having no desire to get into the tanks himself he went on. The policeman deserves to have his head knocked off, to be dismissed from the force and sent to jail. He is cowardly, incompetent and brutalized. T There will be no inclination to take issue with Aguinaldo’s assertion that he is not both a rogue and a fool. So far as I have observed nobody has ac- cused him of being a fool. P Perhaps Senator Perkins spoke words of wisdom when he advocated a pro- tectorate over the Philippines to be | mony, rhythm and rhyme. | “has” broke.” made up of England, German Russia, Spain and. this country I think, however, that he ‘not only dig not but that of all the plans =d this is the worst. We sho! keep the islands or let go and get oui, Such a protectorate would me stant friction from the fir open and widespread hostf United States cannot be so zanxie become invoived in internat as to deliberately lay a sct voke them. No doubt I may be pardoned for once more touching upon the bard the Visalia Delta, for when we have z in our midst let us glory in th ence. Let us give them wri the style Virgi! wore during his tramp through hell, or at least « them a wet rag with which to théir bro I ventured to reprod some of the work of the Del I hope none supposed the act insp by an unseemly spirit of levity. S seem to assume that I intended to make invidious comment or was jealous b cause the muse of rhyme passed me and gave my share of melodious jing to somebody else. Not so. For a bri span I was inclined to regard the Del bard as a joker, but when he come back at me with quotations from G and Poe, showing himself to be in their class, I scan hls work with interest re- newed, and discern unsuspected beauty. In token of admiration I quote again: ARE COUNTY. TU. Here changeless all the seasons through The flowers a shrubs abound, nd seldom the thunderclap O'er hill ale resound. Neither Gray nor Poe eyer wrote anything exactly like this, the difference having been adroitly made so great that there remains no chance for a charge of plagiarism. Yet neither one of them, so far as I have been able to find out, has described re deftly. In explanation of the cont uous bubbling of the font, the Dy minstrel who plays on chords invisi ble says that when in need of inspira- tion he wanders forth and communes with nature and the elements until his soul gets chock full of melody, har- Surely it is not surprising that a soul so equipped should “bust into werse” of a high cla I tried this wandering forth myself, but it didn't work. In- stead of melody, etc., I got fleas, sun- burn, gn embarrassing rent and nary inspiration. So I agree that a poet must be born, not made. But it seems to me the Delta co-respondent in the ar- raignment of doggerel has no need to drag to light the circumstance that in Gray's Elegy there is used the term This was an old form of the verb, permissible at that time. 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