The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, .. NOVEMBER 1, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ‘Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telep! Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. .217 to 221 Steverison Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) !s served by carrlers In this clty and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL... .One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.....0.civuniieivranseseess--908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE......... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcntative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE... C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.... ...Marquette Buillding 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 untll' 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ena Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. e et AMUSEMENTS he Transit of Leo. Sowing the Wind.” ~“Ambition. Theate Hogan's. Alley."” i | ap of Paper.” ] ert. d Eddy strésts—Spectaities. h, Vaudeville and the Zoo 1 Heinrich ‘Recltal t6-morrow night. - Saturday; November 5. Gday, Noveriber 1, Firniture,” at &' elock. PHELAN'S THEORY OF WAGES, \‘\:\‘;L)R PHELAN has never ‘made a formal ment of his ideas concerning the re- s to work; but he hads on several | je statements - on’ specific’ cases whichj dgment the average wage=earner in | He thas’ stated: that:the'| Hall janitors ‘should be | now receive. s show how the Mayor would} PHELAN'S POLITICAL MORALS. ET no one think it is any pleasure to a news- Lpaper to find a public man false where he should be true, faithless where he should be faithful, pretending where he shouid be sincere. It is not with any pleasure that we have exposed Mr. Phelan’s appalling hypocrisy in reaching out for the support of reformers and purists and Non-Parti- sans with one hand, and with the other for that of the classes and bosses whom he has denounced. Moore, in his “Veiled Prophet,” has drawn a pic- ture of false pretense that will live through the ages. Since it was written men have often seen Mokanna | in the midst of them, commanding the purest faith, the most unbounded enthusiasm, the highest sacrifice, only to abuse them all, and when his veil was lifted to expose the repellent features of greed and selfish- ness. Phelan has played this part with great address. If Moore had taken him as the suggestion of his story of Khorassan he could hardly have drawn it closer to the model. The fancy: of this State will never let go the picture of some-men, who in high place have justified the hope invested in them. Governor Irwin was such a man. - He sought office frankly and administered it laboriously ‘and with instant attention to all of its duties.. He was reckless of present popular applause, disregarded the dress parade of his official station and seemed -thoughtful only of faithful discharge of his duty, leaving that to perpetuate his memory. Sargent ‘was siich a character.in the Senate. No oné recalls him either as'a poseur or as holding office as'a | gratification ‘of’ personal vanity.” ‘Stch-men have an ideal which forbids that tliey barter. principles or talk with two - mouths for the sake of honors 4and power'. To them public office is simply a change of work, from the private to the public station. But Mr. Phe- lan’s ideals are different.:; Hé wants the exhilaration 1'of public elevation, the gratification of vanity, the senise of being. better than his fellows, without ac- quiring the mioral qualitiés or exhibiting the practi- cal genius which would justify the claim. To him ambitién is a feather, an ornament, a stripe on his trousers, a -brass belly band and sword, a spontgon; ‘a’ cockade, rather.than’ a ‘sober desire to abide- by, fixed ‘principles and follow their-lead to the ‘goad. of others: - It is matural; therefore, that he should-fall:as he has: It is natural that he should: publicly court the men who stand for reform and privately surrender to:those | whom. he has--denouriced -as the arch:corruptionists | against whom: he alone could defend tlie pecple. His ‘tréaty. with the Harney-Rainey’ combination is the cotiplete revelation of his character.. It is the lift- ing of Mokanna’s veil, the passing of 2 delusion, the awakening from a dream. Phelan- was the reform idol. -He: turns out-to have feet -of clay. All of his of corporations and the expensés { make a reduction in the wages | any’s lamplighters and in"the wages | charged with the duty,of taking | Hall. It matters little to him:that | and the: janitors even.- at prescmi ly carn enough-to support ‘their: families; | ings for a’year- will ‘hardly-equal" his | a week. It is enough for him that he be-| exy Jieves he could get men to. do the work for-less pay.* | Of course Mayor Phelan :has not-made siich: state- luring the campaign: ~-He is:now “bidding for of the workingmen and talks loitily of good just as he talks to independent- Republicans: of his virtuous opposition to Raineéy. ‘While he was ng with the city lighting problem,-however; and 1 the expenses of maintaining the City'“Hall,-and e ‘the election was yet' a-long way off, -he: was]| k and open in his ‘declaration : that- the limp- he janitors are overpaid. yocrite has now: been exposed: - The work- | an advocate of lower wages, and’| m s a secret -conspirator with for a division of municipal patronage. - He bow to Rainey in the: distribution of| and then try to make. a record for: ; The-hy ngmen see him 2 iblicans sée ey if elected the spoils of of economy by reducing the wages: of every working- man in the service of the LET THE: FLAG . FLY. CORRESPONDENT writés to ask if it is cus- fl tomary to fly the flag on.Thanksgiving :day, and to suggest that if it is not now .is a good time " to begin:' He that. there never: Has | been a time when so many people. had flags, so that | a displ matter. It scems to us the idea is an excéllent one. 'There | cannot be too free a showing of the national colors. That they should be on view Thanksgiving is appro- priate always, and this year there is more rgason than ever for it. The nation has. teason:to be grateful: The flag has been borne to victory wherever it has met a ic The flag is the ible.sign of our: unity. It es with it ‘the thought :6f loyalty. :: When ‘it waves patriots are under its shadow.: A -sight of:it stirs the emotions:. It means more to the younger generation than it meant before they had seen brave boys go forth to fight for it and had heard of the valor with which these boys faced deadly fire. Every year there is a national Thanksgiving proc- lamation.. Sometimes it is perfunctory. This year it has in it the ring of sincerity. " There are things for | which this great people may fittingly offer- words o(i gratitude. Armed for the cause of humanity, the re- public went to a war which victory and honor have crowned. When our troops rushed up: the hills: of San Juan, when before Manila they braved a storm of lead, there was the flag to lead them.. Every heart felt a thrill atthe presence of the stars and stripes. As the colors were planted above territory wrested from the enemy a thrill of pride and satisfaction was felt | throughout the land. So in recent history, as in le- gend, the flag is associated with triumph, with honor, achievements and love of country. Let it wave on the day of. thanksgiving. We will offer up praise for the valor of our arms, and the flag stands for that patriotism which is ready to yield life and fortune when the country calls. Fling the flag to the breeze and then offer a pean that it may be per- mitted to wave with no spot nor blemish upon it, the token of a perfect brotherhood, the emblem for whose unsullied honor millions are ready to die. e —————sm adds of them would be a simpl Any voter contemplating the casting of a ballot for Barclay Henley should ask first to see the gentle- man’s naturalization papers. There is a grave sus- picion that Henley owes fealty to Mexico. Those Vienna doctors will never trifle with the germs of the bubonic plague again. - Most of them are dead and the rest know better. The Examiner devotes much space to a recital of the virtues of Phelan. Really, that sheet is running too much to fiction. —— Nobody who heard Phelan’s speech-at Sacramento ever expected to see the little Mayor on his knees be- fore Harney. e AL Just as a matter of political foresight Barry and U Henley ought to have paid their taxes. A “scoundrels” and “rascals” professions fall.:" Nothing is left of him except an am- bBition: that is ‘now: exppsed as-a public danger, be- cause -the means. he seeks for its gratification show hif to be an insincere and dangerous man. If he will pl;oxx1isc the public: patronage :to men ‘whom' he has | just denounted -ds thieves'in order to get office, what i may lié not do when ¢lected if the support: of crimi- nals” worse -than he. has. alleged ‘them to- be become necessary. to the further pleasures of .ambition? The fear that his surrender to. Rainey exists is not con- fined.fo Republicans. who intended. fo_support him; it -extends to -Democrats ‘who ‘have been induced by him -6 - make. énemies-of the very men into whose arms He is now rushing. A three-faced. man would’ be a great curiosity in natire; But here. we have one of triple visage in politics: -One face was shown to-the Democracy in | committee ‘of one hundred assembled. Another face was poked-through: the curtain_of the Non-Partisan convéntion, and now a third leers in:the lair of Har- ney and Rairiey. b s The people want little to do with: such a man and with such a Mayor. | If he stand faithful to one-third of his ailies he miust betray the other two-thirds. The péople want a man whose obligations run .to one party and ‘who has 1o sinister and midnight alliance which claims his paramount allegiance. Let every ‘one watch- the result of the meeting of Harney's committee and see whether it will manfully Teject the: public patronage which Phelan has so un- manfully offered as'a bribe for supporting him. WHAT WILL THEY DO? NLESS Deacon Fitch's Non-Partisans desire to forieit the respect of every voter who in past years has supported their principles and candi- dates they. will take immediate measures to invcsli-; gate and act upon the charge that Mayor Phelan has offered the Harney faction a portion of his patronage in return for their votes. ‘The Non-Partisans have indorsed substantially the entire Phelan ticket. If the bargain referred to had been concluded the Mayor would have sold the Deacon’s party bodily to Rainey and the politicians under his-command. The "at- tempted trade, therefore, was an attempt to sell the Non-Partisdlls to the bosses. It is true that Phelan’s offer was not accepted and ‘that the fight between the Democratic factions ‘will go on as before; but the interest of Deacon Fitch's Non-Partisans in the matter is none the less vital for that. - The Deacon is a reformeg. He fights bosses and corruptionists wheréver he finds them. He is a | Republican; but that fact does not deter him in his pursuit of rascals.in his own party. ‘He has united his fortunes with Phelan because: he says he believes. the | Mayor is:out for pure politics and an- honest ‘admin- | istration of the law. - How: Phelan ever managed to’ convince the Deacon that he is politically honest may continite to be a mystery, but for presént purposes we are assuming that the Non-Partisan boss would | never have combined with him unless he had reason to believe that a Fitch government would follow. The attempt of Phelan to purchase the votes of the Harney faction of the Democracy must knock the scales off the Deacon’s eyes. That attempt was a move worthy the most corrupt political boss who ever existed. The Mayor acknowledged his boss- ship when he assumed that he could keep his part of the agreement, and he proclaimed the “purity” of his sentiments when he proposed to sell “good govern- ment” for votes. If the Harney factionists are fit to hold office under Phelan they are fit to participate in primaries and sit in conventions with his dummies. ‘We have been telling Deacon Fitch all along that the Phelan candidates have promised their patronage to the “organization” formed by the hefting boss. We have warned him that in delivering the votes of‘ the Republicans who have in the past followed his leadership to Phelan’s ticket he was committing an offense against fair and decent politics which would cause a Croker or a Buckley tc hesitate. Yet he has persisted in his mad desire to assist Phelan to place and power. iz S A 4d Now that the whole plar. of the Phelan-McNab con- spiracy for. capturing the offices -has been exposed, it is pertinent to inquire what are Deacor Fitch’s Non- Partisans going to do? ~ Do they approve of the Mayor’s offer to Harney? "Are they willing that one- third of the patronage of the city shall-be given to the have been resisting Phelun’s amazing usurpations in the local Democratic party? In short, are the Repub- licans, who comprise 9o per cent of the Deacon’s fol- lowing, going to indorse the kind of politics prac- ticed by the Mayor and upon which he depends for capturing the city? These are pertinent questions, and large numbers of respectable citizens are anxiously looking to Dea- con Fitch and his followers for an answer. MAGUIRE @ND LAND CONFISCATION. S has been shown, every single tax organ and fl advocate in the United States and Canada points to Maguire’s candidacy here as a battle for land confiscation. The Boston Herald, an organ of that pclicy, says: “Monopoly on the part of the land-owners who have held real estate for the un- earned increment has been one of the heaviest bur- dens the State of California has had to bear. Judge Maguire makes his professions of tax reform without qualification whatsoever, and he hopes to have elected with him at the same fime a sufficient number of Senators and Representatives to control the State Legislature, and in this way make practical the re- forms he is advocating.” This declaration, by one of his outside organs, of what Maguire is hoping to do, makes very necessary a constant examination of his intentions as so cop- iously expressed in his speeches and writings. On December 15, 1897, he said, in the National Single Taxer, No. 46, vol. 6: “We propose to-raise all public revenue on land values.” SREC M “We propose. to exemipt all personal property from taxation.” 5 : “We. propose to abolish poll tax.” “We. propose to exempt from license all business enterprises.” “WE PROPOSE TO DO AWAY WITH ALL VESTED RIGHTS AND TITLES AND OWN- ERSHIP IN LAND AND RAISE THE PUBLIC REVENUE FROM LAND RENTAL.” Of this “rental value,” which figures so largely in the technology of the land confiscators, Henry George says: “I think it necessary to raise the rate of taxa- tion high enough to take as near as may be the whole of that value. Unless you go on you will leave a mar- gin for the owners of the land.” If a-man own land that yields him a profit of $1000 a year over-and above his living, that profit, which is the. rental value, is 5 per cent on $20,000, and he may estimate ‘that as the value of his land. But Henry George says in his speech in St. Louis, published in the National Single Taxer of December 15, 1897: “As vou increase the tax on that land the selling value will diminish. If you tax it $1000 per year the selling value will be gone. It would be worth nothing to own, but would be worth just as much to use as be- fore. That is to say, the man who wants to use that land to-day would give a thousand dollars for the use of it under the present conditions, but the owner puts that in his pocket and will not sell the privilege of ap- propriating that thousand dollars per year except for $20,000. Now, if you are to take that thousand per year for the use of the community the selling value of the land would disappear, the owner wouid get noth- ing, the community would get the thousand dollars.” That is probably as clear an explanation of the pro- cess of destroying landed property in the hands of its owners as has been made. Judge Maguire applies zhe confiscation to the miner and the mines. In a speech made in Congress January 31, 1804, he said: “The great natural de- posits, such as ceal, iron, gold, silver, copper, lead, petroleum, quicksilver and the like, under the earth; and forests over the earth, were prepared and stored by the Creator for the general use of all mankind. IT IS RIGHT THAT THEIR VALUE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE WHOLE PEOPLE WHENEVER PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS EX- TRACT THEM FROM THE EARTH.” We think there is no misunderstanding these utter- ances. Every land-owner in the State and every miner can figure out for himself what will happen to his property if Maguire’s influence to promote its confiscation is increased by electing him Governor. THE SUPREME COURT TICKET. f\BITTERLY abusive and thoroughly vicious fight has been made by the fusionists ever since the opening of the campaign against the Re- publican nominees for the Supreme Court. The at- tack led by the Examiner and followed in the degree of their depravity by other spokesmen of the factions of discontent has carried bitternéss to the verge of malignancy, and abuse to the extent of downright lying persisted in after repeated exposures and refu- tations and after the openly expressed scorn of the better class of Democrats themselves. Nothing more clearly evinces the anarchistic ten- dencies of the Maguire factions than this attack upon two Justices of the Supreme Court, and indirectly upon the court itself. It is in the courts that law is most visibly embodied under our form of govern- ment, and accordingly it is against courts that the growing lawlessness of the demagogues most forcibly shows itself. Every nascent anarchist sees in these tribunals the symbol of constituted authority, the in- violate temple where-justice protects life and prop- erty; therefore he hates the court and is never so vicious as when assailing and slandering the Judges who preside there. The Supreme Court of California holds a high and honored place among the great tribunals established by the American people. Its dignity was never higher than at present, its decisions were never more noted for justice, learning and equity. Among the jurists who have thus ably upheld the best traditions of the court are Justices Van Fleet and McFarland, who are now candidates for re-election. No man of repute or moral responsibility speaks of them in other words than those of praise and commendation. Yet it is against these men the Examiner has concocted its worst slanders and repeated its attacks with the most vicious iteration. It counts for nothing to a man of anarchistic ten- dencies that his slanders are lies and that the people know them to be such. It does not affect him in any way to refute his falsehoods and to expose his malig- nancy. Anarchy is a species of monomania. It is as careless of human opinion as of human life. It ap- proves of a lie as it approves of a murder. It is as reckless of popular scorn as it is of the truth itself. When it has once invented a lie the votaries of anarchy will go on babbling it as long as liberty al- lows them to live with unwhipped backs and unslit tongues. 3 Fortunately the common sense of the American people can be relied upon to save the courts from any danger that may be threatened by such slanderers as these. Justices Van Fleet and McFarland will not suffer on election day from the attacks made upon them. They have shown themselves to be just and upright in maintaining law and doing equity upon the ‘Supreme bench, and with honor the people will re- elect them. ' ‘Maguire might have with consistency secured ‘w_ho for many months | Lc_n_iise Michel to do some stumping for him. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, ‘Marcus P. Miller from command of the 1898. THE ARTFUL DODGER. NUMBER TEN. The plain citizen wants good government. You and T are especially concerned in that result of good government known as low taxes. The plain citizen pays the taxes, and he is drawn to any party that promises to lighten his burdens. THEREFORE THE CRY OF LOW TAXES IS A POPULAR CRY In political campaigns. But the plain citizen has had a long experience of campaign cries. He knows that they are merely dodges to catch votes. The politicians who promise so much before election are careful to perform as little as possible after election. - The reason is that most of those promises cannot be fulfilled. ~We must give the devil his due, and the politician is willing enough to do all he can after election without hurting his own interests. The trouble is, how- ever, that before election they promise great results by inadequate means. When they are in office they see the truth, even if they did not see it when they were candidates. They find their promises cannot be kept, and the plain citizen chalks down another bad mark against the politician. Hence it is the duty of the plain citizen not to be carried away by mere campaign cries. He must use his intelligence. He must not only listen to the promise, but he must inspect the means which are offered for its fulfillment. If his common sense tells him that these means are not suited for the object in view, the plain citizen is justified in SUSPECTING THE SINCERITY OR THE BRAINS OF THE CAN- DIDATE. If a man comes to you or me and promises to haul a load of rock from the park to the ferries we do not take him merely at his word. If he tells us that he intends to perform the feat in half an hour by hitching two of the playground goats to a wagon that two horses move with difficulty when empty we suspect his sanity. If he demands his pay in advance and asks us to trust to his honor for the performance of the contract we begin to look around for the police. This is precisely the position in which Mr. Phelan stands before the people. “He promises us low taxes, he promises us that if he is elected Mayor and Mr. Dodge Assessor low taxes will surely come. We do not believe him. We doubt his sincerity. The plain citizen, that, is, you and I, knows by experience that the sole result of his promised performance would be the shifting of the burden from the rich to the poor. i £ We are justified in treating those who come to us with a hypocritical cry as hypocrites. BUT LET US SUPPOSE For a moment that Mr. Phelan’s contention is true and that the Assessor can by changing assessments relieve the plain citizen of some of his bur- dens. In the first place we must have taxes. If we are to have a beautiful city we must pay for it. We have always kept the system of paving as you g0, and thus we have no debt on the municipality. ~Mr. Phelan is so anx- ious that we should have low taxes that he advocates the issue of bonds and the creation of a debt so that we may not only have the pleasure of paying the running expenses of the city as now, but that we may have the additional honor of paying interest on bonds besides. Of course this is a portion of Mr. Phelan’s policy that he discreetly hides behind Dr. Dodge’s charts when he addresses the horny-handed sons of toil of whom he is one. HENCE AS WE MUST MEET OUR EXPENSES; The tax levy can never be materially reduced. -~ For - political .purposes it is quite possible to keep down the rate for a year or two, but the . floating debt steadily increases, and if we are honest it must be paid. Mr. Phelan claims to have forced the Supervisors to cut down the tax levy a year ago. He says nothing of the yawning deficits. which face every department. and cripple them all. The deficits must be met next year or the year after. It is a very small saving for the plain. citizen to boast that he has run his house for $1000 a year, when he knows that there 'is- $5000 out- standing against him in honest bills. Again the plain citizen does notobject to a low tax levy; but he does object to the manner in which Mr. Phelan proposes to accomplish it. -Mr. Phelan allows as much water as ever to come in through the leak in the ship, and he thinks that he can fool the people into believing that the danger is past by using only one pump. If the plain citizen wishes to get a low tax levy let him not pay his officials so much, nor spend so much money on - parks, police, Fire Department and schools. But it is the rankest absurdity for Mr. Phelan to demand that these be kept in their present state and then economize by paying them in promises and notin coin..Of course the day of reckoning is staved off—perhaps until Mr. James D. Phelan is safely housed'in - the United States Senate; but the plain citizen, like you.and I, will:some day have to face the inevitable in the shape of a tax levy that will haunt our waking and our sleeping hours. For these reasons we may take it for granted that the expenses of the city will keep on increasing in about the same rate as in the past. Now, Mr. Phelan and Mr. Dodge say that in meeting these expenses corporations do not contribute their fair share. They say that these corporations -make their money by supplying public needs. Their value comes from-the.people. Therefore the people should be the chief beneficiaries by their profits. i WE HAVE THEN IN THIS CITY THREE CLASSES Of property. First, real estate with the buildings thereon. money.. Thirdly, the intangible something known as rights and franchises; as, for example, the right to use a street for water pipes or- electric wires, and the franchises’ given to street car companies. g Now, Mr. Phelan and Mr. Dodge are saying that the first class of prop- erty, real estate, is bearing too much of the burden, and the third class, or corporations, too little. They say: “Assess these latter justly and real estate will be relieved. The poor man’s lot is now overloaded; shift the burden to the street cars and the water pipes and the plain citizen will have relief.” THE PLAIN CITIZEN IS AN OBSERVANT MAN. He notices that Mr. Phelan speaks as if there were only two classes of tax- able property in the city—real estate and franchises. . He forgets or passes over the far more important item of money. The town is full of banks. If the railroad and the water company are making illegitimate profits the banks are making illegitimate profits also. The proof is that the stock of the banks is selling for just as good a price as the stock of the railroad com- panies. If the franchises should pay more in taxes the banks. should pay more in taxes. The plain citizen, like you and I, does not make distinc- tions between corporations. A corporation that runs a bank is precisely the same to us as a corporation that runs a street car. Why does Mr. Phelan shout so loudly about the street franchises and say nothing about bank charters? Can it be that the pure and disinterested exponent of good gov- ernment has none of his money in street cars, but has much of it in bankjng corporations? Of course it may be a mere oversight :that Mr. Phelan is not clamoring for an Assessor to raise the taxes on a certain_savings bank: but the plain citizen “thinks a power” when he sees James D. Phelan’s ' name heading the list of directors. BUT MR. PHELAN AND - HIS ASSESSOR May object that private coyporagions like banks are not to be put on the same level as the great quasi-public corporations like street railroads. < The railroad exists because of the people. It is a public utility. Its value is given to it by the people, therefore a very large share of its profits should go to the people. But Mr. Phelan is very careful to hide away the fact that a certain class of real estate is also a public utility. He lumps all real estate together, and, pleading for lower taxes on the plain citizen’s lot in the sandhills, he is also pleading for lower taxes on his own holdings on Market street. But the plain citizen's lot on the sandhills is not at all in the same class as Mr. Phelan’s lots on Market street. The plain citizen’s Jot has value solely as the plain citizen's home. Mr. Phelan’s lot has value as a business block. Now, what gives a business block value? = Location. The Phelan building in Cow Hollow would be worth nothing; it is worth millions at the corner of O’Farrell and Market streets. Why does location give it value? Because of the number of peogle who are gathered around it, who pass it, who are brought close to it. usiness location depends en- tirely on facility of access. The more people that pass a store the more sales will the storekeeper make. But everybody knows that you can meet a thousand people in two ways; you can- either stand on the corner of Mar- ket and O'Farrell streets, and the thousand people will pass you in a few minutes; or you can take a street car in a less frequented district, and you will pass® a thousand people in the same space of time. If the street car is a public utility so is the location of the Phelan block. Both draw their value from the people and both therefore should be treated by the people with the same measure. BUT MR. PHELAN HAS NO DESIRE To see his building taxed as a public utility. He puts it on t i as the poor man’s lot and strives to shirk taxation by dcadginge l:eal?ilrcldbat:ll: poor man’s back. i o Mr. Phelan is not in politics simply for his health. He is not i iti simply for ambition’s sake. He is in politics for the good sotli::ln :7:;1;2:: that every other boss is in politics—self-interest. He wishes to protect his own holdings from just taxation. Like the sneak thief in “Oliver Twist.” he points the accusing finger at the other fellow while his own pockets al:e bulging with the spoils. The plain citizen—that is, you and I, must not be ghosted by a campaign cry. Let us keep our eyes open and our heads clear and we shall see that Mr. Phelan and his Assessor are a pair of artful dodgers. who believe that the people love to be fooled, and are out to fool them in the name of good government. PLAIN CITIZEN. GENERAL MILLER RELIEVED. Major Kinzie Assigred to the Tem- porary Command of the Presidio. Orders were issued yesterday from de- partment headquarters relieving General Captaln Brandt ie ooorted is in bad heal being retired ability, There was a report day that Major rived in the city on Sunday Proved to be Utterly vatorndoy b L Presidio. This was done because General Miller will leave shortly for the Philip- pines. .Major Kinzie of the Third United States Artillery, stationed at Alcatraz Island, has been temporarily assigned to the command of the Presidio, pending the arrival of Lieutenant Colonel Wagner, was sent from Governors York. Island, "Ne W Navigator Butt Departs. Secondly, . turned to the Presidio on Sunday night. th, n.ng it that he will shor before an examining board wm&lg figé’f %: on account of physical dis- in circulation e neral . Shatter hag | s it Lieu- tenant Colonel Greene yest: o a dispatch from Ger.eryn.l se;g!a{"rec:g:g; Fourth Cavalry, who should have report- ed here last week. It is not known when Colonel Wagner will arrive. ~He was granted a sick leave by the War Depart- ment, and this has on several occasions been ‘extended. At department headquarters yesterda; it {s expected that the Pennsylvania wil et away to-morrow or Thi lay and the ‘X wgc and the City of Puebla the last of this week. Touls P. Brandt, First Infantry, Te- been stationed in Florida, Captain 4 who has Lieutenant Butt, the warlike navi, of the revenue tug Golden Gate, the t?rrtg: of timid mates of tanbark schooners, has been reiioved from duty on this coast and has be- assigned to protect the harbor of New York. He will take his 32-caliber revolver with him, and it is expected that the Battery will quiver with the terror of his name. Lieutenant Buhrer of New e oveinug cutter Sear, Wil vake” N e cutter " ake - ieraiin ‘take his AROUND THE CORRIDORS H. A. McCraney of Lakeport is at the Baldwin. Captain C. 8. Cotton, commanding the Philadelphia, is among the recent arri- vals at the California. J. Jeans, a prominent grain man of ‘Winters, is at the Russ. Captain W. Sebree, U. 8. N., is regis- tered at the Occidental. Webster Davls, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, has returned to his apart- ments at the Palace. J. J. Hebbron, a prominent cattleman of Salinas, is at the Grand. E. W. Allen, an extensive frult grower of San Jose, is at the Lick. C. M. Huxford, a Boston merchan- dise broker, is. at the Grand. W. H. McMinn, a prominent citizen of Mission San Jose, is at the Lick. M. C. Wright, the Republican candi- date for Surveyor General, s at the Grand. Réginald Truman, ‘one of the officials of the English syndicate controlling the Iron Mountaln mine, is at the Palace. Willlam . Green, editor of the Colusa Sun and Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, is at the Grand. 8. M. Green, a well-known mining man of Milwaukee, is at the Palace. A. Hockhelmer, a prominent merchant of Willows, s at the Baldwin. William Muir, the Sacramento dredging contractor, is at the Russ. G. G. Fraser, an extensive merchant of Sonora, is registered at the Occidental. John A. McIntyre, a. prominent Sacra- mento mining man, is at the Grand. L. A. Richards, the well-known breeder of fancy stock, is at the Russ. W. H. Alford, ex-chairman of the Demo- cratic State Committee, is at the Cali- fornia. N. Abrams, an extensive merchant of Hanford, is at the Baldwin. John Raggio, a prominent San Andreas mining man, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 81.—J. L. M. Shet- terley of San Francisco is at the Imperial. Dr. Frederick W. d'Evelyn of San ¥ran- cisco is at the Gerard. George A. Peltier and wife of Sacramento are at the Hol- land. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DRUGGISTS' SIGNS—E. L. B., Bel- mont, Cal. This correspondent wants to know the origin of large bottles filled with colored liquid as a sign for drug- xhizlt} Can any reader of this department tell? H. POSTAL CARDS—F. 8., Berkeley, Cal. If there is any firm in the United States that buys up postal cards that have been addressed but not sent through the mails and sells them again for ad- vertising purposes, this department can- not advertise its business nor that of any other firm. TURNING IN HER OWN LENGTH— A. S, City. No battle-ship moving at the Tate of sixteen knots an hour can sud- denly turn in the space of her own length. A vessel moving at that speed with plenty of sea room might make the tum in about three or four times her own length. THE FIRST SCHOOL—O. G., City.. The first- American school in ‘San Francisco was .opened on the block west of Dupont street, between Pacific and Broadway, by a: Mr. Marston, in April, 1847. It was a private entérprise. On the 21st of Febru- ary, 1848, a Board of School Trustees was elected; and on the 3d of April following it opened a school on the plaza, = with Thomas Douglass as principal, but a tariff of tuition was fixed. On December 26, 1849, John C. Pelton opened a school in the old Baptist Church on Washington street, near Btockton, without cost purflu, depending on ' contributions and voluntary subscriptions. In 1550 he ap- Elled to the City Coumncil for relief. ’Jge “ouncil allowed him and s wife $500 per month. As it was supported by public funds it was called a public acheol, the first {n the city. CARRYING A PARLOR RIFLE~£. Mo~ C., City. It is to be presumed by the question asked In relation to the right to carry a small parlor rifle farther than the Cliff House that you have reference to being on the great highway. That thor- oughfare is under the jurisdiction of the Board of Park Commissioners, and an or- dinance of that board says that it is un- lawful to carry a firearm or discharge the same on any street, highway or avenue under the control of the Commissioners. If you mean on the hills east of the Cuff House or north thereof, vou will come in conflict with the city ordinance that pro- hibits the discharge of firearms within 300 yards of any street or dwelling. It you are very anxious ‘‘to practice with a small arlor rifie at seagulls,” ride as far as cean View, take the road to the ocean beach, and you will find yoursel. outside of ‘the 1imits of the city and county, and there you may practice to your heart's content, providing that you are careful hot to interfere with the rights of others Who may be on the beach. —_—————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's® —_—— Special information ' supplied dally to business. houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ ° —_—————— Muldoon—An’ so yer fr’ind Casey sthood an’ saw Brannigan give ye that tirri- batin’ widout makin’ ony offert to e? (mournfully)—He did. He yillled out, “Go in and win, Ducey, an’ thin he Janed agin a phost wid his hands in his ckets. Ra‘ycugnmnn, widout intherven- on wuz all Of got from Casey.—Puck. —_—————————— Through Tourist Car to St. Paul This car is nicely upholstered In leather, leaves every Tuesday night, no change. Goes via Shasta route and Northern Pacific Rafl- way. The scenic line of the continent. Ticks ets on sale to all Eastern citles at lowest rates, T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market st, San Francisco. —_—————————— EXFERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER. Use Acker's English Remedy in any case of colds or croup. Should it fail to give ocous immediate reliet money refunded. At No Per- centage Pharmacy. —_———————— Dr. Sfegert's Angostura Bitters, the great South American tonic, imparts a_delicious fla- vor; cures Dyspepsia, Diarrhoea, Fever & Ague. —_— re————— “Spain hasn’t much of a literature,” said the studious young woman. “Of course it hasn’t” answered the Ko\mg man who was doing his best to eep up with the conversational caval- cade. ose people have such a queer way of talking, you know, I don't see how they could get up much of anything ex- cept dialect stories.”—Washington Star. ADVERTISEMENTS.