The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1898, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1898 Tall WEDNESDAY...............OCTOBER 19, 188 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ss All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE..... .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 18574, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding toway for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL “One year, by mall, $1.50 | Addre: PURITY OF THE PHELAN STANDARD. /\/\ANY people have believed that the Mayor, whatever his fault of arrogance, regardless of his absurd assumption of power, was guided by an honorable intent. He has prated of purity in politics, and they have blindly overlooked base methods to which he has resorted. They could not think he would be capable of false pretense. They | chose to consider him as having been maligned. To The Call has fallen the task of unmasking Phelan. It was not a pleasant task. Neither was it one to be evaded. It has found the purified and | purifying Mayor guilty of practices for which men of less influence, unequipped for doing as imuch harm, have been sent to prison and stripes, and it has told the story. When Sternberg went to San Quentin OAKLAND OFFICE. .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. .Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... ....Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. | | | | | | | | | | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, epen untll 9:30 o'clock. 194! Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS ove in Harness.” By the Sal Sea Waves.” The Wife.”” ‘Stralght From the Heart." Tivoli—*'The Circus Queen.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. New Comedy Theater—'‘Where's Matilda?” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones stre s—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Lillian Stewart, eville and the Zoo. Sherman & Clay Hall—Second Heinrich Recital Thursday Evening. Olympia, corner Mason and Bddy streets—Speciaities. Association A . Mtorium—Concert. 0dd Fellows Hall-Masquerade Ball, Saturday, October 22. Sutro’'s Baths—Swimming. Rosenthal—Coming in February. Baldwin— AUCTION SALES, By Frank W. Butterfleld—This day, October 19, Furniture, at 1916 Broderick street, at 11 o'clock. Killip & Co.—Thursday, October 20, Horses, at corner | 7an Ness avenue and Market strects, at 11 o'clock. HERE has been some doubt among the few CROTHERS WE@AKLY EXPLAINS. Twho pay attention to the attitude of the Bul- letin on political questions as to the excuse Crothers has for his conduct. Others among the few have never had any doubts. The Bulletin says it favors Julius Kahn for gress because he is the nominee of the Republican party. An excellent reason, Mr. Crothers, a con- vincing reason, one which does your perspicuity | proud. You might have added that he happened to | be the best man for the position. But the Bulletin in its feeble way is for Phelan for Con- | Mayor. Why? Phelan is not the nominee of the Republican party. He is a Democrat. It might al- most be said that he is THE Democrat. He is the whole party, brains and appetite. Surely he is not being supported because he is a Republican, or do the Bulletin heathen in their blindness bow down to the little god of Democracy and not realize what they are doing? If the fact that Kahn is a Republican is a sufficient reason for supporting him, it ought to | be sufficient reason for supporting the whole ticket. | From the diadem of the Bulletin editor there is lack- ing the jewel of consistency. When a paper throws its trifle of influence to one man because he is a Republican, and at the same time whoops things up for another candidate who is on the other ticket, it ought to be more explicit. Other- wise unkind people will think that it has been chased. Such a suspicion would be painful to a per- son so delicately sensitive as Crothers. Another ex- planation is due, even overdue. The Bulletin has given no reason for being Phelan’s creature. It must | have a reason. Why not be frank? If there was a price paid there would be a $ubdued $atisfaction knowing what Crothers thinks himself worth. ‘ e SWEAGRS TO ITS OWN DECAY. THI’.RE are few occasions on which any neces- iner may say, but we are inclined to think it truthful when it swears to its loss of circulation. For months it has been going down hill, and with tender regret we have called attention to the fact. During September the daily circulation, according to its own affidavit maker, was 2184 less than during August. This is a great decline. Details are lack- ing, however. this circulation went to the garbage crematory. circulation may justly be termed “paid,” for the burning of it entails an expense of 20 cents a cubic yard. . While this falling off has taken place the Examiner pur- in | has been making desperate efforts, through the pub- | lication of stupid puzzles and the promise of prizes, to popularize itseli. Dotbtless this scheme has re- sulted in the sale of many extra copies, and without it the showing would have been worse by far for the paper itself, though better for the community. When it is reflected that the present Board of Su- pervisors is made up of the personal selections of the Mayor, when the fact is recalled that it has been corrupt and inefficient, the circumstance that Mayor declares there are four wards in the city from which no fit citizens can be selected as Supervisors does not seem to be in the nature of a compliment. The army has won nothing in esteem by glossing over the offense of two officers at Honolulu who, while drunk, placed themselves on exhibition. being severe with privates who are similarly obstrep- erous. Mayor Phelan laughs at a practice for which Stern- berg went to San Quentin for a term of years, al- though at the time he said the offender ought to have a life sentence. The difference is that now the of- fender is Phelan. According to the Mayor there are four wards in this city which cannot furnish anybody fit to repre- sent them in the Board of Supervisors. There must be a better exguse than this for “colonization.” One boy has shot another at Quincy, as usual em- ploying an empty rifle for the purpose. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death, but the death was not accidental. It was criminal. LTS Since the Examiner has its spy system in opera- tion, it might keep track of Phelan as well as of Pat- ton. The public is really interested in the way the Mayor spends his time. Spanish officials seem to be sorry that they yielded, but the time is too late for any but vain regrets. How- ever, if they want an opportunity to yield again, in all likelihood they can get it. . ity appears for believing anything the Exam- | There is no showing of what part of | Such | the | Tt is | not even probable that the army can square itself by | for the crime of colonizing voters, one who most roundly condemned him was Phelan. When he was pardoned, after having served two-thirds of his term, the ground being that he had been the tool of others, who had wholly escaped, it was the Mayor who most loudly voiced a holy indignation, declaring that Sternberg or anybody similarly reprehensible merited a life term. It seems to us that the act of the Mayor in ducing Eugene Murphy, an honorable citizen, | “colonize” in a ward other than that of his residence, was a greater crime than that perpetrated by Stern- berg. At least the hollow hypocrisy of it gives it a | worse look. Sternberg did not stand forth as a re- | former. He was not the talking apostle of nobler { and loitier politics. He was not a man of wealth and standing. He had not been trusted by the people with a great office. Phelan did not colonize a mere voter, but it was his design to have Murphy elected a Su- pervisor. He made a specious plea that the course { was legal, in the interest of good government—was, | indeed, laudable, So well did he present the case that for the nonce he convinced Mr. Murphy that no evil was being done. But to the colonist there came a second and wiser thought. He reflected that the course was morally, even if not legally, wrong, and withdrew. He went | back to his home and left the Mayor to handle the purity business without him. Mr. Murphy is an up- is in- to | right citizen, his word acceptable wherever he known. Moreover, it is in this instance enforced by circumstantial evidence. There is no escape for the Mayor from the conclusion that he has been caught | in a deliberate attempt not only to colonize a voter, | but a candidate. If Sternberg merited a life term, | what shall it be said Phelan merits? The Mayor is backed by the unclean Examiner and the equally nasty Bulletin. Possibly he could f have officially survived the handicap of such friend- ship as this, but when he is exposed as a trickster, his insincerity made plain, his virtuous words robbed of their effect, his pious attitude shown to be a cant- ing pose, it may be said that he has brought about Neither the throwing of mud nor his own defeat. money can save him now. B ] HE case of Fitch vs. the Board of Supervisors, T\\-hich filled so large a space in the public eye about this time last year, having been decided by the Supreme Court in favor of the officials whom Mayor Phelan ousted from office, it will be interesting to observe the comment of our reform Democratic fellow citizens upon the reasoning of the Judges. An evening contemporary remarks that the scheme to oust the Supervisors for failing to fix water rates in February, 1897, was an attempt to Mexicanize the city government. By this it is intimated that the Mayor endeavored to change the local government without resorting to the formality of an election. 1 it be true, as alleged, that the Mayor actually did contemplate Mexicanizing the city, he must have been acting under the advice of his esteemed Mexican fel- low citizen, Barclay Henley, now his candidate for District Attorney. Mr. Hemley, as is well known, was formerly a Mexican Marquis, and is therefore prob- ably familiar with the Mexican method of overturn- ing governments. The decision of the Supreme Court, however, will not be likely to promote the political aspirations of | Mayor Phelan. On the contrary, those who take the | trouble to read it will perceive that between the lines | it administers a deadly blow to the species of dema- | gogy upon which he has been making politics in this city, and by means of which he has hoped to lift | himself into the Lord-Mayoralty under the new char- ter. The court declares that proceedings for ousting | officials for dereliction of duty under our law must i be criminal in their nature, that no crime was com- | mitted by the Supervisors in making a water rate in- vestigation which ran over the month of February, and that if a valid water ordinance can be passed in | any other month—which the court has already decided | could be done—when the constitution declares that | rates shall be “fixed” in February it means that pro- ceedings shall be commenced in that month. The monstrous feature of Mayor Phelan’s theory of fixing water rates under the constitution and the act of 1881, however, receives little attention from the court, perhaps because it was not necessary to con- sider it. Reference is made to his idea that innocent Supervisors must be punished along with the guilty for malfeasance in office. It will be remembered that Lackmann and Rottanzi opposed laying over the or- dinance of 1897. They protested against Dr. Clin- ton's motion to postpone and declared that if adopted it might endanger their official tenure. Yet when the | proceedings to oust the board came along they were | included among the guilty and Judge Wallace held that they must also be punished by being deprived of their offices. Subsequently the Mayor reappointed them, but the | precedent he sought to establish was clear. This pre- cedent was that innocent men must be punished in order that the guilty might be reached—a principle so abhorrent to all justice as to approach perilously near barbarism. The purpose of Phelan and Fitch in adopting this theory was, however, ill-concealed. They were.forced to save Supervisors Clinton and Dodge, who had been chiefly instrumental in post- poning the fixing of water rates, and they ousted the board as an entirety to do it. Then Phelan rose to the occasion by appointing the four anti-Spring Val- ley Supervisors to his new board. Now that the Mayor and his assistants in this scheme to obtain possession of the government by force are on record as a pack of fools, the people should not fail on November 8 to express their opinion of all of them who are running for office. S — The Rev. Mr. Nead whs not convicted of vagrancy because there was no evidence against him. Eleven jurors out of twelve thought him innocent, and what the other juror thought is a matter for speculation. EE e When Mayor Phelan is detected in an act which seems contrary to the spirit of the law he explains that it is in the interest of good government. Phelan has had one Boafd of Supervisors. He is trying to pick another. There is no reason for thinking his judgment has improved. A COMBINATION OF SLANDERERS’ COMBINATION made up of Maguire, the /C\ Democratic State Committee, the Examiner and certain anonymous person$ who clearly represent the notorious school book ring has begun a campaign of slander against State Printer A. J. Johnston, who has been renominated by the Republi- can party and who will be supported by all citizens whose minds are too honest to be affected by slander and who desire an efficient administration of the office. Fortunately for Mr. Johnston, the record of his ser- vice has been made public by an official investigation. The slanders put forth against him by the writers of an anonymous circular in the interests of the school becok ring, and supported by Maguire, his henchmen on the Democratic State Committee and his organ, the Examiner, have all been thoroughly inquired into and disproved. The refutation of the slander is to be found in the official records of the State. ‘When the charges were originally made they came almost directly from the school book ring. The last Legislature appointed a committee to investigate them. That committee was composed of three mem- berc of each House, and represented both political parties. For the better performance of its work the committee appointed four experts—two Republicans and two Democrats—to examine the work and the accounts of the office. Two of the experts were skilled accountants, and two were experienced in the printing and bookbinding trade. Their report was unanimous, and concludes as follows: “The testimony taken has been very full, and much time has been devoted to this hearing. And, having i given the whole subject careful consideration, we are of the opinion that the office of Superintendent of State Printing has been conducted on business prin- ciples and with economy and due regard for the pub- lic interests.” The object of the school book ring in making the fight against Mr. Johnston is to break down the State school book system and leave the schools and the people of California once more a prey to their plun- dering. Our own experience taught us what that ring wa in times past, and the reports that come from the East at every session of the State Legislatures there show it is even worse now in its greed and in its corrupting power than it was in the days when California was one of its victims. N It is significant of the cunning and the trickery of the ring that it has not made an open attack upon Mr. Johnston. It has prepared an anonymous cir- cular and arranged to get Maguire's State Committee to circulate it and indorse it. The circular was sent out by the committee accompanied by a letter signed by Seth Mann, chairman, indorsing it and requesting the Democratic press to copy it. Notwithstanding this indorsement by Seth Mann, the Examiner said yesterday: ‘“Concerning the authenticity and author- ity of the original circular we are unable to speak, for we do not know who is responsible for its appear- ance.” If the Examiner will inquire of Mr. Mann it will probably find that Maguire is responsible for its appearance, and that back of Maguire is the school book ring. £ The animus of the whole thing is revealed in the sneers of the Examiner at the State School Book League. That organization, representing California labor and California schools and having no other ob- ject than that of protecting our people from the rapacity of a ring whose corruptions are notorious in every State in the Union, is recognized to be, like the State Printer, a dangerous foe to the ring. Hence the combination. Meantime Maguire poses as a friend of labor. Meantime the Democratic State Committee claims to be opposed to corrupt rings and monopolies. Mean- time the Examiner protests it does not know who is responsible for the anonymous slander. /\/\ is to be congratulated. She got as far as the altar with a young man, and there he left her. Of course she fainted, for the surprise was consider- able, and the wedding feast had been prepared re- gardless. The almost-groom balked because he de- tected on the breath of the pretty-near-bride the faint and yet significant odor of a cigarette. He turned upon her, spoke the accusing words and then turned upon his heel and went away from there. Fortunately she did not attempt any defense. Per- haps had she pleaded tearfully he would have re- lented. Possibly if her big brother had given him a kick he would have braced up. In which case, Gene- vieve, instead of being free and at liberty to smoke cigarettes, would have been tied until death or divorce to a tyrant. Undoubtedly the deserter has all the ele- ments of a domestic boss. He would have ruled the house with a rod of iron and probably placed his wife on an allowance of one print dress a year. Now she can pucker her rosy lips around as many cigarettes as she pleases. It seems that she had promised to cease the prac- tice, but just an hour before the time set for the cere- mony had been induced by a bridesmaid to take a farewell whiff. In swearing off any habit the reformer is accorded the privilege of tapering. There is no wisdom in giving the sensibilities a violent wrench when they can be trained to new ways by pleasant dcgrees. The surprise in the whole matter is not so much the conduct of the groom, who must be reck- oned a crank, but the fact that Nebraska girls indulge in cigarettes. There has been an idea that this habit among American women was confined to cities, but never that the pastoral stretches of the Middle West contained yellow-fingered bachelor maids with breaths redolent not of the wholesome onion, but of tobacco. Nevertheless, while in no manner lending approval.to the course of the bachelor maids, they have a right to follow it if they choose, and any man to be scared from the altar by it does not constitute a grave loss. SAVED BY @ CIGARETTE. 1SS GENEVIEVE RANSOM of Nebraska According to the Examiner the present Board of Supervisors is a “vile crew.” Perhaps the allegation gives little ground for dispute, but it must be re- membered that this same crew was selected by Mr. Phelan. —_— As all of the bad Indians but .ne have agreed to surrender there is hardly a probability of a general war. The troops available ought, with the raw mate- rial, to be able to make the solitary renegade good. Vanderbilt remarked that the public might be damned. Phelan echoes the remark, and an unrea- sonable public objects, for times have changed. Nobody can blame the Mayor for laughing when charged with illegal acts. In fact his only chance to laugh is between now and November 8. Misled by an exaggerated idea of his own impor- tance, Phelan says, “The King can do no wrong.” Only Phelan isn’t king. When Dewey shall reach this city the people will be too busy welcoming him to inquire as.to his politics. FATHER OTIS’ GREAT PROJECT The project to cleanse the city in the vicinity of Dupont and California streets of vice and moral pollution is receiving the support of the public, but not the support of the city officials. Father Otis of St. Mary's Church, when asked if he knew anything about the ordinance clos- ing the streets, said: I do, and very much that s hard to be ex- plained. We have taken an interest in the closing of Bacon place because it has a direct influence upon the work which St. Mary’s Park Assoclation has undertaken, besides being an open violation of the law and in opposition to decency and morality. We have taken more than an interest; we have taken action. Some three or four weeks ago, after consulting legal authorities, we were informed that Bacon place, appearing upon the official maps of the city, was in consequence a pubiic street, and, there- fore, no individual has a right to obstruct this public streot by erecting gates or other ob- stacles. Mr. Shadburne called at the office of Superintendent of Streets Ambrose and re- quested him to remove the gates, as they were there in violation of the law. 'Mr. Ambrose Was absent at the time. His deputy promised to lay the matter before him on his return and volunteered the assurance that he would un- doubtedly take action at once. We walted a few days. No action was taken. Mr. Shad- burne, our representative, called several times at Mr. Ambrose's office, but failed to meet him. After a week or ten days I called Mr. Ambrose by telephone and asked him it he intended to take action or not. I simply wanted an answer from him—yes or no. He expressed himself as willing to do so0, but that he was not certain that Bacon place was public or private, and he wanted time to consider ft. I requested him to give me a direct answer whether he would act or not act. He gaid he could not. I bade him good day. Since then he has taken no action, and evidently, from his standpoint, the question Is one that cannot be decided In a month. It was stated that If Mayor Phelan would ' give the order to have the gates re- moved it would be acted upon. Why public officials cannot take action in a case in Which their duty seems clear without receiving orders from the Mayor to do 50 is something I cannot understand. Mayor Phelan has shown himselt to be in favor of every movement for the im- provement of the city, and we honor him and acknowledge our debt of gratitude for his as- sistance in the work of eradicating the nuisance which has so long defiled the fair name of San Francisco. We aid more than appeal to the Superintend- ent of Streets. We called the attention of the Soclety for the Suppression of Vice to the state of affairs existing on Bacon place and re- quested it to take action against the open vice. Mr. Kane at once. took an active interest in We concluded first to ask the Chief of Police to take action. As a repre- sentative of St. Mary's Park Assoclation Mr. Kane called upon Chief Lees and asked him 1o abolish the nulsance. He stated that the existence of public vice in the immediate neighborhood of the condemned property had @ retarding effect upon the purchase of the fame; that certain owners pointed to Bacon Place and declared that St. Mary's and Quincy Ftrects would be reopened. The Chief refused Jo take any action. He declared that he would }5t be made a tool to depreciate the value of the adjoining property, and told Mr. Kane it the matter was to be discussed to tell the prin- ipals to come to see him. Mr. Shadburne cailed upon the Chief and requested-him to act in accordance with the law to close the place, cause it was a standing sc . e be intorview was that the Chlef refused the matter. The result | itively to take action, He asked why the ard of Supervisors had not passed an ordi- nance condemning the place, and at the same time declared that even if it did_he would not | act under the ordinance, as the State law was sufficlent, and vet he would not act at all. Mr. Shadburne thanked him for what he had dorie and withdrew. Chief Lees sent to me & representative, who informed me that the Chiet sald It was better to delay action regarding Bacon place until after election, but that he would not promise to act even then. I stated that we would have to take action independent of him; that it was his duty to see to the in- forcement of the law. We had requested him to d0 0. He had demonstrated his ability to cope with the evil by the closing of St. Mary's, Quincy and Morton streets and Berry place, and therefore his refusal to act was not due to lack of power, but due to some other rea- #on, and what that reason may be we do not know. No matter how capabls and well-intentioned officers of the police force of this city may be, it they have at their head a man who will not instruct them to enforce the laws they are pow- erless to effect any material change in ex- isting evils. Why we should be compelled to do the work of the Chief of Police s another thing hard to be explained. His representative intimated that the Chief would declare that he was asked to take actlon in order to depre- clate the value of the adjolning property. That was but one of the arguments used. Mr. Shadburne did not advance that argument, nor 214 1. We requested him to act in accordance with the law, which is ¢ sufficlent argument in {tself and Mr. Kane simply mentioned that as an additional argument. And it is an argu- ment. 1f fmmorality iS permitted to be pro- teeted openly in proximity to the proposed park grounds it gives hope ta the owners of the Places that were formerly used for the same Purpose that they would be able to use this property for the same purposes again. Why oes the Chief not act? Can he not procure the evidence against these people? The owners, lessees and occupants are known to others and the evidence against them will be produced in cotirt and they will be prosecuted Independ- ently of the Chief. We have reason to complain about his inaction and we do complain! He Claims the honor of having closed St. Marys and Quincy streets. We freely concede it to him and have asked him to take the additional honor of closing Bacon place. Why has an ordinance mot been passed? That is another question. We do not think an ordinance neces- sary, although it has proven a moral force heretofore. The majority of the Supervisors have shown their interest in the suppression of vice by passing several ordinances. We have not asked them to pass an ordinance closing Bacon place because we discovered that an ordinance was already before the health and police committee. The history of that ordinance is somewhat pe- culiar. It was discussed at a meeting of the above mentloned committee on October 7. The dally papers declared that the committee had agreed to report favorably upon it. But it has never come before the Board of Supervisors. Bacon place s running wide open, Dupont street is returning rapidly to its former condi- tion, and how are we to preserve the good effected—if we accomplish no more—unless the Chief actively assists us? The prosecution of owners, lessors and inmates on these streets will be begun at once, and what will then be revealed remains to be seen. Parties interested in the maintenance of vice on Bacon place have held meetings on Saturday evenings. These meetings will prove Interesting matter when discussed later. We can afford to take our time. Endurance will prove an important ele- mpntl:n ‘n’ec‘u:mx success, and we are giving our attention to the best method: v this factor. 8 ordcysioging IN FAVOR OF ANNEXATION. To the Editor of The Call—Labor and | capital have now a common object to strive for. They should shake hands, for- get for a time supposed enmities, and work to compass the annexation of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. Through- out the land the unemployed stalk and complain that there is no work by which they may put bread into their mouths, while the hand of want knocks at the door of many an American home. True, times are better than they have been for many years, and the future is pleasing to contemplate. But even with plenteous crops, mills and factories running and good markets at home and abroad there are numbers of good men who can get no work and capital that is not being used to_develop antergrtses in this land. ‘Where would the American people be to- day among the nations had her popula- tion been confined to the thirteen original States of the Union? It has been the constant opening up of new territory, giv- ing men opportunities and developing new resources, that has made this, in many ways, the greatest nation on earth. The youth of to-day claim that they have not the opportunities of becoming rich and great as had their fathers and grandfath- &rs: that lands are now taken up, flelds for enterprise once new now occupled by the pioneers who cut their way to fame and fortune through the hills and plulr‘u and valleys of the great West and North- West. Alaska has recently furnished a fleld for the hardy and ambitious, and already the stream of gold from the frozen north {s making money easier. All Old World nations have had to open up new flelds for th?!r tL‘l[lzens, new mar- kets for thelr manufactures. It is true that America is h‘z a_better position to-day than ever in hér history as far as markets for her products are concerned, and is fast becoming a creditor instead of a debtor nation; but there are many centuries ahead of this country, it is to be hoped, and it behooves those who are mow at its head to grasp the oppor- tunity presented to place three earls of price within the reach of the American of to-morrow as well as legislate for the American of to-day. What has Spain_done to develop any of her possessions? Every recent writer has told how her oppression has stified indus- try, and caused vast natural wealth to lie dormant, awaiting the magle touch of enterprise. Rich in everything that makes 2 land worth having, the triplets that have been weaned through the ogvresfllon of the mother country are fit fields for ‘American capital and labor. It would seem that some higher was cailing to America to till these gar- den spots of the earth. Aside from their strategic importance the three island col- onies will prove a future boon, whose worth is hard to estimate at this time. England has by her colonial system opened new fields for her men and her money. Whether any of the possessions now 1n controversy before the Peace Commissioners at Paris are capable of self-government the future will prove. ‘Assuming that they are not now, then how many thousands of Americans must be taken from this land to run the gov- ernmental machinery? Citizens and scl- cters will be given employment. Compe- tence and not political “pull’” should gov- ern the selection of those chosen to look out for American interests, if the colonies are run as such, and in this we cannot do better than to carefully study English methods. Certainly Yankee ingenuity will improve them in time, but systems that have proved their worth should not be thrust aside. Even the work of ex- amining candidates for colonial offices— and the more rigid the examination the better—would furnish employment for many at home. Who to-day regrets the Louisfana pur- chase? Has not Alaska, after looking for years like a useless plece of furniture, proved a carpet of gold? An American wants not elbow room alone, but he wants to be able to reach out about him at arm’s length and grab anything good in sight. e wants op- portunity. Give the boys of to-day and those of to-morrow fresh fields for inge- nuity and enterprise. JOHN CRAIG. San Francisco, October 16, 1808. HOW TO COUNT PUBLIC FUNDS. The class In city politics was in session and the master asked a number of ques- tions that were pertinent and of decided importance to the voters of this city at this ttme. Define president of the Board of Super- vigors in S8an Francisco. The Mayor, elected by the city and county at large, is the president of the Board of Supervisors, and it is his duty to preside at all sesslons of the board without the right to vote. ‘What are the specific duties of the pres- ident of the Board of Supervisors of San F!r"x:ml'm? 13 shall be o e law says: ‘"It shal the du reaident of the Board of Supervisors to observe the offigial conduct jupervisor in his district, and of all public officers of the city and county, and take note of the fidelity and exacti- tude, or the want thereof, with which they execute their duties and obligations, u'pecltlly in the collection, custody, ad- ministration and disbursement of the pub- e carn must he do in'the carryin, hig, specific duties? il says: “The presi- 1 The consolidation dent of the Board of Bupervisors, in con- | their duty to S ower than man | Lunctlan with the County Judge (changed Yy a subsequent act to a Judge of the said city | E:gerior ((‘our:‘) I:imd Auditor o county, shall, every month, the books of the Treasurer Bndexa(;?}lréfi officers of said city and county having the collection and custody of public funds, and shall be £Prmllled and it shall be E and count over all the moneys remaining in the hands of such Treasurer or other officer.” Who framed the consolidation act? Horace Hawes. ‘What was his purpose in inserting the words ‘‘see and count?” The framer of the act named was shrewd old man, who believed that the proper way to keep a public official hav- ing the handling and custody of public money honest was to make him be hon. est, and see that he was not tempted. He knew that if the president of the Board of Supervisors did his duty as re- quired by law and saw the money with his own eyes, no gold bricks or iron to- kens in bags could be foisted on him for ’genulne money, and he knew that if the Treasurer or other official had to show once a month the amount of coin his baoks called for as a balance he could not have an opportunity to play the flim-flam game and®appropriate the people’s money. ‘Who is the president of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco? James D. Phelan. Did he do his duty as such officer as re- quired by the law? In one matter he did not. He willfully neglected to SEE AND COUNT the money in the hands of the City and County Treasurer, and allowed him to play the flim-flam game and at the same time gast a Bllml!n 1l)n the filme of the eity y _proclaiming to the world that i hfl(:i a mshnnesthofl'lclal. ' "an a man who will neglect a plain duty of the highest lmponancep be trus‘ted’, in the administration of public airs? A man who can be false to his trust in one matter can be false in every matter and therefore should not be trusted with further opportunity to mismanage pub- lic affairs. E. C. 8. —_—— Sutro Railroad Assessment. An order was made by Judge Coffey di- recting Mrs. Emma Merritt and W. H. R. Adamson, executors of the will of the late Adolph Sutro, to pay an assessment of $2 a share on 21310 shares of the cap~ ital stock of the Sutro Railroad Com- pany, owned by the estate of the dead capitalist. It was shown that through the anxiety of creditors of the road to enforce payment of claims it was neces- sary that the assessment should be paid. 2 | the public this fall. AROUND THE ' CORRIDORS Judge N. Blackstone of Ventura is at the Grand. - John Fennell, the Yreka capitalist, is at the Palace. C. J. Lowrey, the Fresno insurance man, is at the Grand. Frank H. Buck, the Vacaville banker, | is at the Palace. Dr. A. M. Henderson of Sacramento is a guest at the Lick. F. D. Nicol, a prominent Stockton at- torney, is at the Russ. W. R. Carithers, a general merchant of St. Helera, is at the Lick. S. K. Porter, part owner of the Baliol mine, is at the Occidental. Professor C. C. Clark of Santa Cruz is registered at the California. H. B. Delevay, a well-known mining man of Sonora, is at the Lick. A’ Beale Las returned from the Klon- dike and is ncw at the California. E. I. Woodman, candidate for State Printer, is a guest at the California. “C. C. Beckman, a prominent general merchant of Portland, is at the Grand. George Lingo, a prominent Birds Land- ing cattle man, is a guest at the Grand. De Vries Van Doesburg, & prominent vineyardist of St. Helena, is at the Lick. H. Kind, a well-known general mer- chant of Eureka, Nev., is at the Grand. Preston Woods, owner of the Eagle Bird mine at Emigrant Gap, is stopping at the Lick. Dr. A. H. Mitchell, the well-known San Jose physician, is a recent arrival at the Occidental. A. Brown of Milton, Calaveras County, a candidate for the Board of Equaliza- tion, is a guest at the Lick. George L. Arnold, a member of the Board of Equalization at Los Angeles, is a recent arrival at the Lick. Richard R. Dobell, M. P., of Quebec, and family, arrived here yesterday in a pri- vate car and are at the Palace. United States Senator Joseph Simon of Portland, Or., is at the Palace. He is ac- companied by Messrs. G. A. Still and G. Glass. Dr. Charles V. Cross, a San Francisco physician, returned on the Doric on Mon- day from an extensive tour through China and Japan. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Dr. M. Gardner of San Francisco is at the Gilsey. D. J. Needbury of San Francisco is at the Plaza. C. A. Debney of San Francisco Is at the Empire. M. Goldsmith of San Francisce is at the Holland. A. J. Lowen- berg of San Francisco is at tne Broadway Central. P — Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.” ———— This week; best eyeglasses, specs; 15c, 40c; 65 Fourth street; look out for No. 65. * ————mes information suppliied dally to Speclal business housc: and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- Zomery street. Telephone Main 1042 —_—ee————— Carbon, old Flemish and gray oaks, fine mat gilts, ebony and little, narrow mold- ings in bright green, blue and violet bronzes are the latest for pictures frames. The Taber-Prang and Hargreaves colored | photographs mounted on glass with pro- | jecting gilt corners find great favor with We have them all at opular prices. Sanborn, Vall & Co., T4l arket street. . | | | “Don’t this old injury hurt you when u attempt to run?’ asked the examin- surgeon of a candidate for enlistment. “Course it does. If yer lookin’ for sol- diers what's going to run just count me out.”—Detroit Free Press. — e——— «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It Sooth-e the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Cnlle, reg- ulates the Bowels and s 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 Mra Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. —_— Through Tourist Car to St. Paul. This car is_nicely upholstered in leather, leaves every Tuesday night, no change. 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