The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 189 1808 .OCTOBER 28, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F- Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 217 to 291 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL....... OAKLAND OFFICE........... NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Rigge House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ....Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall. $1.50 .908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o’clock. 387 Hayes street, open untlil 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 »clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission 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 until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. —“By, the Sad Sea Waves.” ‘The Span of Life."” v Theater—'Where's Matilda?” pia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Oly Sutro’s Baths—Swimming. Young Men's Christian Association Hall—Concert. Sherman-Clay Hall—Concert. pep Qushion Tea—At 1916 Calitornia street, Saturday, Novem- T . Ingleside Coursing Park—Coursing Saturday and Sunday. Glen Park—Mission Zoo, Sunday. Rosenthal—Coming in December. bep Jakiznd Race Track—Races, commencing Saturday, er 29, Octo- AUCTION SALES, By Frank Butterfield—T Ellis Street, at 11 o'clock. s day, October 2, Furniture, at & GOOD READING FOR VALENTINE. A of express companies toward the war tax. upon such as refused, aiter a Wells-Fargo style, pay their share of the tax was general and severe. a T a recent meeting of the National Association of Freight Commis: in Detroit, much consideration was given to the attitude Criticism to oners, held The resuit of the deliberations was embodied in pamphlet which would make exce President Valentine. If he has no copy he is wel- come to the loan of a copy now in po: ion of The Call. Among reports read at the meeting some showing that certain express companies, notably those of the South, had cheerfully complied with legal enactments, had not striven to impose upon their patrons, nor, attempting to misconstrue the law, supported their contentions with Scripture quota- tions. Companies operating in complied, whether cheerfully or not matters little, since re- fusal to do so would have subjected the officials to heavy fine. Here is an excerpt from a circular sent out by the Railroad Commissioner of that State as a warning: “That any express company that requires the shipper to pay for this stamp, in addition to the regu- lar tariff rates in force, is to that extent guilty of ex- tortion and liable to be prosecuted, and a penalty of $500 for each offense collected of them.” Here is another, which was regarded as applicable: for ent reading were Texas “Every express company doing business in this fixed by the said Railroad Commission for the trans- and pay to the State of Texas a sum not to exceed | missioners. The Wells-Fargo Company is a common the jurisdiction of the one whose views and powers to force it to conduct itself honestly and decently, to the best method of protection against corporate greed PARETICS IN SPASMS. S feeble and babbling ado over an editorial para- Delaware to be tried, adding that a murder trial in red right hand, and said the paragraph had been writ- tumbling of a house knew at a glance that the para- there is not the least occasion for sympathy. If softening of his brain or the absence of this useful feel real badly. Oh, well, possibly our courts are not permitted to go free on evidence nobody doubted to without excuse, afterward escaping punishment; when to the taxpayer than to anybody else. One woman in silly creature, weak in body as in mind, moneyless, When there is such difficulty in convicting a mur- reasonable to suppose that in a case hedged about Probably Mrs, Botkin would have found conditions State which shall demand or receive a greater com- portation of any class or kind of property * * * $500 for each offense.” { carrier, and as such as directly within the jurisdic- | have been cited. The Legislature also has a right to the elimination of comic Valentine methods. was the inauguration of a parcels post, but this is an- EVERAL paretics whose degeneracy has taken | graph in this paper. The paragraph in question con- California was apt not to be a serious affair. ten out of sympathy for the woman. Anybody with graph was a tribute to the laxity of justice when it guilty, hanging is too good for her. organ, declared that the attack upon the courts was perfect. When three years are consumed in hang- be perjury; when Mrs. Shattuck lures a man to her a soldier kills his tent mate and is acquitted, there is recent years has been punished in San Francisco for friendless, not a dashing beauty. She had no in- derer on the plainest evidence, while lawyers will with so many complications as the present one, the different in Delaware, She is to be congratulated; MAGUIRE ON PERSONALITIES. | s i UDGE MAGUIRE has fallen to complaining | d that his opponents have dealt in personalities. | He is the last man who should make that com- | plaint. As a ruale a public man who himself avoids | personalities toward others is exempt from them him- self. But no public man in California has dealt in | more offensive personalities toward his opponents | than Judge Maguire. When he bolted the Demo- | cratic ticket in 1886 he was rancorous and not decent | in his personal treatment. He called that gentlest of | gentlemen, Frank McCoppin, “‘a piece of carrion,” | when McCoppin’s only offense was that he had re- | ceived the regular Democratic nomination for Con- gress. In the same campaign he personally abused | Mr. Pond, against whom he was running Hinton, as | a bolter, for Mayor. | When he sat down in his study to write his book | on “Ireland and the Pope” his abusive disposition got the better of his discretion. Professing to write truthfully on 800 years of history, stretching from Pope Urban IV to Leo XIII, he displayed none of | the calm and judicial spirit which becomes the his- torian, but dealt in invective from start to finish. He called the Pope “the serpent of the Vatican, sinking his fangs in the heart of liberty.” He called the car- dinals “red-capped hounds,” and exhausted the vocab- | ulary of abuse. He betrays the same tendency in his discussion of | all public matters. In his copious speeches and ‘writings on the confiscation of land he continually | and with a wearisome and vituperative reiteration | calls the land-owner “a monopolist,” a *“cunning rob- | ber,” the “despoiler of God’s children,” an enemy of | “God’s law,” the “foe of society,” who is to be pun- | ished for investing in land by being “expelled” from | what he pretends to own. Vituperation and abuse, | personal detraction, the ascription to others of un- | worthy motives, exude from him as naturally as red | sweat from a hippopotamus. In the present cam- | paign he began with gross personal abuse of every : delegate to the Republican State Convention by call- | ing them the tools and chattels of the Southern Pa- cific Railroad. He began personally decrying his op- ponent, Mr. Gage, by accusing him of bargaining | with the railroad for his nomination and intending, if elected, to be the minion of that corporation in- | stead of the servant of the people. No more gross. abusive and insulting charge could be made against a gentleman. But Maguire made it and has repeated it, directly or by cowardly, unbecoming and unmanly | innuendo, in nearly every speech he has made, Now what of the personal abuse of himself, of which this venomously vituperative candidate com- plains? It consists solely of the publication of his speeches and writings and holding him responsible for what he has said himself, and for a fair and just interpretation of it. When he said that anarchists and nihilists were worthy people and desirable immigrants whom he hoped never to see excluded “from this land of the free heart’s hope and home,” that utterance could have but one meaning. It was an indorsement of the anarchist and nihilist method and propaganda, and the offer of an asylum in this country to the foes of all government and the assassins of all who repre- sent law and order. When he said that the land-owner had no right to | the land he had bought and “beautified and made fer- tile by his labor, but could be at any moment ex- | pelled from it by its lawful owner, society,” he de- | clared for the communal confiscation of land without | compensation to the owner. If being “expelled” by | the commune is not confiscation, what is it? His declaration was in form identical with Nicholas Ba- | kounin’s definition of anarchy—"Everything is every- ; body’s.” | It is no abuse of a man to hold him responsible | for what he says. If a man when a candidate for | office dodges responsibility for every ))ubli: declara- | tion he made before his nomination, but one conclu- sion can be formed concerning him—that he is a | mouthing fellow, so insincere that he will stand by nothing that he says. If Judge Maguire would now say from the stump: “Yes, I said the Pope is a ser- pent with poison fangs, and I stand by it. I said the land-owner is a monopolist and a robber of God's children, who can be justly expelled from his land without compensation, though it may be a hardship to him, and I stand by it,” everybody would respect his adherence to those expressions of his belief, though the belief would be odious to a majority of men. 1f Maguire choose to treat his record as a dog does the tin kettle tied to his tail and try to run away from it, it is no personal abuse to call attention to the kettle. @ ONE-SIDED CAMPAIGN. NE of the most striking and significant fea- O tures of this campaign is the contrast in the strength presented by the opposing parties on the stump. It is a condition never before seen in California in this generation. On the Republican side is a host of orators of the highest eminence in politics and in professional life, and on the other is one stump speaker of note—Maguire howling in the wilderness alone and forsaken. The weakness of the Democratic campaign in this respect is remarkable, for however that party may lack for statesmen, it has never before lacked for orators of considerable ability. At the present time it has in its ranks many speakers who if they took the stump would attract large audiences, but they are silent in this fight. They refuse to be eloquent or even to be loquacious for fusion, single tax, anarchy and Maguireism. The Democratic masses in this campaign look in vain for the old leaders, listen in vain for the voices of the old orators. English, Foote, Geary, Irish, Caminetti, Reddy, Clunie and many another of local fame and note—where are they? There is surely some significance in this silence on the part of the noted leaders of California Democracy. Men who have been identified with a party through- out their political career—politicians whose fortunes are bound up with the success of the party—do not forsake it for nothing. Maguireism has struck old Democracy a hard blow—it has knocked it speechless. Los Angeles is said to have a healer who poses as a representative of divine power, and under whose gentle ministration people are taught to escape human ills by dying of starvation. Los Angeles also having a jail, a question naturally arises as to why the healer should be outside of it. gl Kitchener and Marchand seem to be about the most peaceable representatives of England and France, and yet only a few days ago they were credited with a desire to eat each other up. Possibly the yellow journalist is not wholly an American product. A Chicago man being late to dinner became in- volved in a quarrel with the lady of the house, dur- ing which he killed both her and himself. By this time the dinner was so cold that it was spoiled, such pensation than that which may be prescribed and | shall be deemed guilty of extortion and shall forfeit | Now California sustains a Board of Railroad Com- | tion of this body as the Texas companies are within participate in the regulation of a common carrier and The gentlemen at Detroit reached the decision that other subject. the form of a desire to write are making a gratulated Mrs. Botkin that she was not going to Thereupon arose a paretic, grasping a pen in his intelligence acute enough to take a hint from the gets hold of a murderer. For the Botkin woman But another scribe, impelled to rashness by the vile. He made the declaration in italics, and seemed to ing a Durrant, when the slayer of a, police officer is house for the purpose of killing him, and does so reason to think that a trial for murder is more serious murder. She is now in San Quentin. She was a fluence. quibble so long as there is a fee in sight, it is surely trial will be iong and, in all likelihood, ineffective. the public isn't. L waste lending a moral to the episode. & A ROORBACK TICKET. NE of the most barefaced tricks of the cam- paign is that which has been perpetrated by the circulation of a so-called “regular teach- ers’ ticket” of candidates for School Directors. While the trick has been carried out with some slyness in an underhand way, it is not difficult to decide as to its authorship. It carries on its face unmistakable marks of its origin. The ticket puts up something of a pretense to be non-partisan in its nature, for it includes Republicans as well as Democrats among its candidates. The pre- tense, however, is but a thin one, for there are but four Republicans to eight Democrats. Such a ticket, it will be seen, would give the Democrats com- plete control of the Board of Education by a two- thirds vote. It is clearly one of those tricks which, if successful, would prove to be a snap for the work- ers of it. That there may be no mistake in the matter we give the names on the ticket. They appear without any statement of the political affiliations of the can- didates, but the letters giving the initials of the party to which each candidate belongs are added in order that the public may understand the nature of the scheme. The list is as follows William A. Kemp (R.), D. F. Keefe (D.), T. J. Lyons (D.), J. M. Thomas (R.), Benjamin Armer (D.), George R. Armstrong (R.), H. W. Branden- stein (D.), A. A. Cavagnaro (D.), J. J. Conlon (R.), Dr. P. J. Conran (D.), William M. Cannon (D.), and Charles P. Eells (D.). A copy of the ticket has been sent to nearly every public school teacher in the city with the request that it be supported in the coming election. Several of the tickets sent out were accompanied by remarks giving the impression that they emanated from the office of the clerk of the Board of Education, but this it appears was a part of the trick. The fraud, though cunning in design, was clumsy in execution to succeed. The teachers who received the ticket were surprised and began at once to make inquiries at the office of the board for an explanation. It was then found that the thing was a trick. The teachers not only have had nothing to do with it, but they distinctly repudiate it. The whole scheme was clearly an attempt to make use of the teachers to elect a Democratic majority of the board. We will leave the eight Democrats who would have profited by the success of the trick to explain the thing to their colleagues on the Democratic ticket who were leit out of the circular, and before the ex- planations are over it will probably be found by the authors that the trick is a roorback. The only way to provide for a good Board of Edu- cation and to assure the right administration of our schools is to vote for the straight Republican ticket. Every candidate for the board was selected by the Republican convention solely because of his personal fitness for the place. They resort to no tricks nor frauds in making the canvass. They stand for hon- esty in the campaign and in office. too SECOND CONGRESSIONAE DISTRICT. EPUBLICANS of the Second Congressional R District have an opportunity of rectifying the mistake of two years ago and sending to the House of Representatives a stanch upholder of the administration in place of the Democrat whom they elected at that time. It is an opportunity which no loyal member of the ;;arty can afford to neglect. The issue is far-reaching. It appeals to patriotism as well as to local interests and popular welfare. Grave problems of foreign as well as of domestic politics will confront the administration during the term of the Congress that is to be elected this fall. It is for the voters to determine whether the President, when he meets those issues, shal, have the support of a House of Representatives friendly to his policies and willing to support him in loyalty, or a House dominated by a majority antagonistic to the Presi- dent and more desirous of hindering than of aiding him to make his administration a success and a benefit to the nation. All the questions now before the people in the arena of national politics are summed up in the one great issue of supporting the administration. Every candidate for Congress is either for the President or against him. It is for the voters to determine whether they will be represented at Washington for the next two years by a friend of the administration or an opponent. Foreign nations are waiting to see what Americans will do in this crisis. The elections are to show whether our people are changeable and fickle, or whether they will stand by their Government until the questions growing out of the war are settled and the old issues of tariff and finance closed for this genera- tion. To lead them in the contest the Republicans of the Second District have a young and vigorous cham- pion. Frank D. Ryan is one of the most noted of the Native Sons of the State. He has long been prominent in public life, and holds a high rank at the bar. As District Attorney of Sacramento he has made a record which attests at once his ability as a lawyer and his fidelity to the public service, nor can it be doubted that in the wider field of Congressional activity he will show an equal efficiency, integrity and zeal. With such a candidate to represent the administra- tion and with such issues at stake, there ought to be no question as to what the voters of the Second Dis- trict will do on election day. The Democrats are making a still hunt and fighting hard for every seat in sight. Republicans cannot afford to be indifferent or over-confident at any point of the contest. “Stand by the President” should be the motto of the canvass from this time on. People of Connecticut are angry because no battle- ship has been named after their State. Yet here is Cal- ifornia, where the best battleships the world knows are turned out as easily as Connecticut ever made nutmegs, not getting its name attached to so much as a converted tug, and not raising a row about it, either. By the opportunity afforded through murders com- mitted by Patrick Keenan and Patrick O’Shea the courts will be able to demonstrate the speed with which two cold-blooded assassins, concerning whose guilt there is no shadow of doubt, can be dropped about six feet. People who witnessed the drowning of a team- ster at the Jackson-street wharf seemed to be stirred by the spectacle, but there never came to them the conviction that to rescue a man from drowning is considered not only proper but laudable. —_— If Spain really contempiates a renewal of hostili- ties let it reflect that the victories won by the making of spirited remarks and tearing of the hair have been comparatively few. The only surprising feature of the report that President Faure had been murdered was that it was not true. THE WOODENHORSE NUMBER SIX. To the Editor of The Call: The power of the people may be used against the people. This is a proposition that plain people must always keep in mind. This government was made for the plain people, for you and for me, and not for the politicians. The men who made the government took all pains to prevent the politician getting so much power that he might be dangerous to us. For that reason they divided political power among many officials; they took care that every few years those officials should return their power to the people and they cultivated the growth of gredt political parties so that the people might have the power of choice. The boss tries to get around these devices first by controlling as many of the officials as possible, secondly by nominating for office those that will serve Him, and thirdly by seizing the party machinery so that no other leader may have an opportunity to come to the surface. This is Mr. Phe- lan’s method. Other bodses have tried it, but none have brought it to such perfection as he. Some have controlled conventions, some have mastered Supervisors, some have been able to reach the judiciary, some have owned the Sheriff or the County Clerk, but never in this city has there been a man strong enough to own convention, Supervisors, School Bos ._Sherlff, County Clerk, Assessor, Auditor, the judiciary, in a word everything ex- cept the Morgue. This is now Mr. Phelan’s aim. To reach this end he ap- peals to the plain people—to you and to me. He asks for your vote and my vote to attain his ambition. IN THE AMERICAN SYSTEM There is only one legitimate way for obtaining elective office, and that is by obtaining the most votes. But Mr. Phelan is not satisfied with that way. In the first place, it is too uncertain and Mr. Phelan is not taking chances. In the second place it does mot make Mr, Phelan the sole source of power. Of course he cannot entirely dispense with our votes, but we may learn his desire and his inclinations where he thinks he can do without us. Honesty may be put to many dishonest purposes. There was never a vir- tue yet that did not have its counterfeit presentment. Political honesty is such a taking cry that it is no wonder that pretenders have made the most of it. For a long time the plain people—you and I—have had our eye on the professional honest politicians. One of the very peculiar facts con- nected with our local politics is that there have aiways been three honest men- in our Boards of Supervisors. This is as constant as a natural law. It has held so long that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Mathematics and honesty have no connection as far as is known to our philosophy. Why, therefore, there should be three and only three cannot be explained by any inherent property of this virtue of honesty in gen- eral, or of political honesty in particular. Of course we know that if out of twelve men only nine can fit in a room the other three must remain out- side the door. The three outsiders may explain their position by whatever virtue they please—honesty, temperance, fortitude, magnanimity or fear of the Lord—any old virtue will do. But the plain citizen will have his own explanation and his explanation will be based on the physical fact that a room that can hold only nine does not need more than nine to make it full. HENCE THE THREE HONEST MEN ‘Who appear with painful monotony in every Board of Supervisors are re- ggrde‘d with suspicious interest by the plain citizen—by you and by me. We listen to their thunderous indignation as they denounce the solid nine that have broken into some treasury or another. We take in their pas- sionate pbrotestations that they have never cast a sidelong eye on a treas- ury—their thoughts are as virgin of treasuries as the colored person’s of fiction are of hen roosts. We smile when we hear them describe the in- famy of combines, for we are not so old that we have forgotten our child- hcod’s fable of the fox who gave his opinion of sour grapes. In the present Board of Supervisors there were three painfully honest men—Mr. Dodge, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Lackmann. Their honesty has for now two years reverberated between the Twin Peaks and Goat Island. There is no one in this city ignorant of their virtues, for have they not sat in a row in the public places like Justice with a patch on their eyes and unlike Justice with a placard on their bosoms bearing the legend, “I am blind, but honest””? The chief characteristic of these three Supervisors during the past two years, besides their honesty, has been THEIR DEVOTION TO MR. PHELAN. ‘They were men who would support his policy. Two were Democrats and one was Republican but they were all of the Phelan party. Whatever he wanted they did, and without him they did nothing. In the new Jerusalem which Mr. Phelan intends to let down upon this peninsula from the heaven of his own honesty three such faithful servi- tors should have a high place. One might sit at his right hand and the other on his left and the third would be convenient as the footstool of his feet. Such services as theirs deserved a reward, and a reward that was sure. Of course the people are in theory the last judges of honesty. They often in elections are rendered distrustful of professions that grow too loud. It is possible that they might not take the three honest men at their words. They might think it quite possible that the next time the room that oniy holds nine was empty these three men might by mistake wander in—for are they not blind? But Mr. Phelan does not believe in trusting the people any more than he can help. He knew a way to re- ward his servants with a sure reward. ‘When a member of one party 1s dissatisfled with the party‘s candidates he always has the recourse of voting the ticket of the other party. This is one of the advantages of the existence of parties. NO PARTY CAN AFFORD TO IGNORE THE PLAIN CITIZEN Entirely—you and I can take our revenge by supporting the least obstrep- erous organization. But this recourse is taken away from us altogether if both parties nominate the same eandidates. We can do nothing then but submit. This was Mr. Phelan’s brilliant scheme for rewarding those who had served him well. He would put them on both tickets. No matter how they had conducted themselves on other matters, the people could not re- buke them. They had been his falthful servants and this virtue covered all other sins. They might have neglected their constituents, betrayed their principles, flown in the face of justice, but the people could not reach them. They were SAFE WITHIN THE AWFUL SHADOW OF THE PLUG HAT. Against them none dare lift a hand. With the Republican, Mr. Lackmann, the scheme succeeded. He Was nominated by the Republican convention and by the committee of one hundred. The committee of one hundred claims to be the Democratic party of San Francisco. If it has any reason for existence it is to nominate Democrats to office. If it does not nomi- nate Democrats it should go out of business and become a non-partisan party or something else. Plain people like you and me may sometimes fail to see the use of bringing national party names into municipal a: But as long as they are brought In, because we are plain peopll;. wea:}l?l‘; to see them plainly and honestly used. A Democratic convention that nominates Republicans is a mockery, a delusion and a snare. But you and I see clearly enough that the virtues to which - tee of one hundred looked were not the virtues known as Deé};zrgggtngét subserviency to Mr. Phelan. support my policy.” ask their politics. His cry has been, “Give me men He does not care whether they are Feithil Democrats as long as they do his will Republicans or ‘When we hire servants we don’t Sufficient for us that they obey. So the committee of one hundred nominated Mr. Lackmann Lackmann has received his reward. He can sit in peace under his uav?x? vlg-n!; and fig tree and wait for November 8. has, the people cannot defeat him. He goes on the board not No matter how many enemies he as the repre- sentative of the people but as the representative of James D. Phelan. Mr. Phelan tried the same tactics with Mr. Clinton. Mr. Clinton is a Democrat, and the process was not so easy as in the case of Mr. Mr. Phelan, who poses as the apostle of purity, whose campaigfialcsk;.mclgx‘;- tinued cry against the terrible evil of having bosses other than himself, ap- proaches the Kelly and Crimmins outfit with the proposition to nominate Mr. Clinton on the Republican ticket. could not deliver the goods, or whether the scheme was too them, the deal was not consummated. No matter how many valid and serious objections might be against same. But whether Kelly and Crimmins scandalous But. Mr. Phelan’s object was t‘}?g Mr. Clinton, he tried to force him upon the voters of this city because of his obedience to himself. The plain citzen, that is you and I, may learn from this how far Mr. Phelan is prepared to go. Here we have no ordinary boss; we talent, of wealth, of ingenuity, striving to control the whole he making such efforts? To give us a good government, he the wooden horse lay outside the man was right. The wooden horse was filled with armed men. It wa; into, the town, and soon the town was but a name. ple, like you and me, say, ‘“We are afraid of a boss even when he good government.” Yours truly, have a man of city. Why is says. When walls of Troy the Phelan o clared that if it were brought within the city the wxckeaféfiifik‘,”‘y de- never again molest the Trojans’ peace. “I am afraid of the Greeks even when they bring us good A plain man, like you and I, caoa‘igj Bifta” The plain € brough: Even now, plain n‘eof brings us A PLAIN CITIZEN. LITERATURE FOR MANILA Editor The Call: I am in receipt of a letter dated September 22 from Rev. Francis B. Doherty, C. S. P, staff chaplain with our troops in Manila, in which he asks me to send whatever papers and magazines I can spare for the soldiers in the hospitals and bar- racks. ‘Will you not ask the subscribers to your valuable paper to forward their copies after reading to Rev. Francis B. Do- herty, C. S. P., chaplain, U. S. A, Casa del Secretario, Molacanan, Manila, Philippine Islands. The rates of postage are the same as to points within the ited States. U}l have taken the liberty to pass the reverend gentleman’s request to me for literature all along the line. It would be a disgrace if our troops at Manila were not supplied with wholsesome reading matter, and I trust that you will do what you can to supply the need. There need be no fear of a sur- plus, as I think I can promise that the overflow will go to Dewey's gallant . Very truly yours, s i M. RIORDAN. Flagstaff, Ariz., Oct. 25, 1898. —_—————————— PASSING P’LAEABA; NTRIES. “Do you think Boeckle, the tailor, would give me credit on a suit cf clothes?” ‘Does he know you?” “Oh, in thrat case he would!"—Das Klelné Witzblatt. Miss Hichurch—We have a dreadful time with our clergymen! Visitor—What's the trouble? Miss Hichurch—Well, the last one was so religlous that he neglected social mat- terg, and this one is so al that he neg- 4lects the church.—Puck. AROUND THE CORRIDORS C. P. Colgan, St oS ate Controller, is at L. T. Hatfleld, a promine; attorney, is at the Lick. il C. A. Luhrs, one of Sacra i 3 mento’s larg- est merchants, is at the California. s § William Spiers, the well-known Calis- o‘g:n ;:age proprietor, is at the Lick. - M. Coglan, secretary of the State B;:;d of Equalization, is at the Lick. il Aspinwall, a prominent mininj man of Rowland, Ohio, is at the Russ.! Thomas A. Lewis, auditor of the State Board of Examiners, is at the Califormia. ml;rank M.z Bgeredlth. a prominent min- man of regon, is a Russ, B guest at the hlJudge :L S. Hartwell of Honolulu, on S way home from an Eastern trip, is the Occidental. T C. T. McEachran, the prominent St. Helena vineyardist, i among the recent arrivals at the Lick. Professor David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, accompanied by Mrs. Jordan, is at the Occldental. The well-known writer, Arthur Mec- Ewen, accompanied by Homer Davenport, caricaturist, arrived from the East yes- terday. They are at the Occldental. Mr. and Mrs. Claus Spreckels, accom- panied by Miss Annie Brimmer, a niece of Mrs. Spreckels, and A. B. Spreckels, arrived in New York yesterday afternoon and registered at the Hoffman House. The party intend to remain in the metrop- olis two weeks. B CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Dr. Inksetter and wife of San Jose and A. L. White of San Francisco are at the Holland. Smith Sheldon and wife and C. Hirch and fam- ily are at the Savoy. Bishop J. M. John- son of Los Angeles is at the Everett. FATHER CARAHER ANSWERS FATHER OTIS\ DISAGREES WITH THE REV- EREND GENTLEMAN. Commends the Decisive Action of the Police in Closing More Dens of Vice Yesterday. Father Caraher of St. Francis Church has submitted the following reply to the letter from Father Otis, published in yes- terday’s Call: Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: issue of your jo sailed for the s a dire evil and for my defense of children and adults. The two my censor are remarkable on representation, d tions. In the se in the first, suggest t residence in certain clreumstanc knows, or should know, that I rural abode, think of scampering to n This diocese is mi @ labored, howe for twenty- letters of ne d and that in no case could I no astern re “kindred”” in the temple the great apostle. St tions the sinners that from heaven if they die sing, but neither he nor any dare teach that buying and “kindred” or cognate to these tions. Time and agaln my self-appointed censor strives to make me use the word ‘‘localize,” which I have studiously avolded. I have sald that ‘it is my belfef that filth should be_impounded and compressed instead of diffused,” and I think that any sane man will admit the correctness of this belief. When a building or locality s invaded by smallpox it is quarantined, and there i3 neither ingress nor egress, lest the con- tagion spread. In the case under considera- tion the evil was being rapidly diffused, the diffusion had already reached, and threatened to ruin, this section of the city, and the diffusers cannot now escape from their criminal part in the work. My censor asks me to furnish him with the proofs in my possession that a move- ment was on foot to dump the filth of his locality at our doors, and offers me valuable assistance against any such future move- ment. What effrontery, to ask me to sup- ply him with proofs! 'An effrontery only equaled by his indiscretion in starting a controversy. As to his assistance in the future, I disdain to receive any from such a source. Nevertheless, these proofs are in my possession, and 1 am ready to present them when the demand comes from the roper quarter. P writing of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah I stated I was far from sug- gesting fire and sword as a remedy for the resent evil, much though I desire to see t extingulshed, but my censor leads us to belfeve that he would use fire. ‘‘We cannot say that we indorse his disapproval of the means employed by God,” etc. Thislanguage could be easily construed to imply a threat to burn property, if not persons, and the man who uses it might be easily connected with future conflagrations. Not only would I not burn nor kill any of these unfortonate women, but I am ready to provide a home for any one in my parish_that shows signs of repentance. I am ready to receive any of these pitiable outcasts as our Lord re- cetved the Magdalene and as my predeces- gors in the priesthood received Mary of Egypt and Margaret of Cortona. They are all made to the image and likeness of God. selling abominas= That image and llkeness, though dis- figured, still remain, and from their fallen state they may be raised to the glory of heaven. The writer most unfairly separates the word “mpounded’ from the word ‘‘comnressed, whereas I had closely connected them, and in contradistinction to the term ‘diffused Not once did I declare the impounding of the evil a necessity, vet the writer harps upon its necessity, and in this relation makes a distasteful ailusion to ‘“‘our monasteries and convents.’”” The impression is disingenu- ously sought to be conveyed that I am op- posed to the enforcement of the law in the case under consideration, but it is my deter- mination to enforce the Taw that has lately moved Chief Lees to act so sweepingly in this neighborhood. The Chief has done more in the last twenty-four hours than I ex- pected from him in six months. ‘The slnglln me out from all the inhabi- tants of the clty as the one cognizant of the disreputable dens in the writer's neighbor- hood and as the competent witness toappear before Chief Lees is too ridiculous to notice, and the sudden change from ‘“‘coercing” to “cajoling” the Supervisors is most laugh- able. I have full confidence in the gentle- men of the board. I belleve that they are disposed to do justice to all, and that they are superior to threats and_ cajolery. October 27, 189. T. CARAHER. — ee——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ILLITERACY—Subscriber, City. There are no figures showing the percentage of illiteracy by religious creeds. LEGAL TENDER—J. J. B., Vallejo, Standard silver dollars of the United States are legal tender in any amount, un- less otherwise specified in the contract. TO STUDY LAW—E. E, City. If you wish to study law and have only evenings to devote to that study you should place yourself under the tutelage of a reputable attorney. CIRCUSES—A. A. B, City. Circuses never remain in any one place any great length of time. On the 20th of October Sells Bros.’ circus was in Kentucky, Wal- lace's show in San Francisco, Barnum's in England, Robinson’s in Kansas, Main’s in West Virginia and the Grand Syndi- cate was not announced. THE AUTHOR—B. M., Oakland, Cal. A friend of this department writes from Haywards to convey tbe information that the author of the poem in which are these lines: Ye are changed since I saw ye last, There’s something bright from, ete., Is Mrs. Felicia Hemans, and that the oem, entitled “The Voice of Spring,”” can e found in her book of poems. THAT DONATION OF BEER—Seamen, United States flagship Olympia, Manila Bay, Philippine Islands. The donation of beer that was intended for the fleet at Manila, it is asserted, was placed on one of the transports bound for the Philif— pines. What became of the same will robably beg discovered by the board of nquiry that has been named to ascertain what {m.! become of certain property not accounted for. Cal. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's® —_————— 81 4th st., look out for No. §1, nr grocery; best eyeglasses, specs; 15 to 40c; open Sun.® _— e Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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