The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1898, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 189 7 1898_ NOVEMBER 2: JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. $. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 186 EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874 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 montb &5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL...... coarans One year. by mall, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE.. ceeees ..908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE... ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (®. C.) OFFICE -Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... .Marquctte Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCR OFFICES—S527 Montgomery street, corner Clay. epen until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until 930 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o’clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 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 | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-sécond ane Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. the Zoo. ts, Specialties. A TELEPHONE ABUSES. SUBJECT which should receive attention from the coming Legislature concerns the secrecy of telegraphic and telephonic messages. The law as it exists at present gives business men and newspapers inadequate protection against eavesdrop- ping and actual betrayal, and it ought to be amended s0 as to t severe penalties upon those who traffic in the business secrets of others. Such amendment need repose on no higher plane than ordinary public policy. The code now provides that even in judicial pro- ceedings involving life and property the secrets of attorney and client, physician and patient and priest and parishioner shall be inviolable; that is to say, that the lips of these three classes shall be closed unless they are opened with the consent of the per- sons concerned. The reason for this is founded upon an enlightened regard for the confidences of man- kind. It is better, says the law, that evil should be worked now and then than that men should be pre- vented from imparting their secrets to those who es- pecially enjoy their confidence. The law with respect to telegraphic messages as loid down by various courts prevents fishing excur- | sions among the records of telegraphic corporations. The only way a litigant can get a telegram on a sub- pena is to name and describe it. Moreover, owing to the litigation which is taking place over business }sccr'ets intrusted to their care the telegraph compa- nies are strict with their employes and promptly punish violations of confidence. It is rare, there- fore, that information contained in a telegram leaks out, and no change that could be made in the law would be likely to improve the secrecy that is now maintained with respect to those communications. But with telephones it is altogether different. Not understood, but no curb at all has ever been placed upon the operators by the telephone companies of California. Everything that goes over the telephone 1 December. AUCTION SALES., uesday, November 23, at 11 o'clock, evening, November 28, ward st. | | | UST wi been proposed to Spain in re- rd to her sovereignty in the Philippines is hown to time rumors seep out from Paris, | and the r <t to a reasonable conclusion from them | i at « Com anish representatives over a price to be paid for the sioners are haggling with the | ur nd their people. To pay for territory after | yped the nation that ewned it has a pre- | cedent in our settlement with Mexi But that was | territory .over which Mexican jurisdiction was not only nominal, but it was land that was untouched by | the hand and untrod by the foot of civilized man. In | all of its vast area the Mexican settlers hardly n\mv‘l we ha >, bered into the thousands, and when we made treaty | with Mexico their ownership of the lands they occu- pied was respected and they were made citizens of the United States. It is not to be denied that their fate | when their nomadic simplicity was brought in contact | 2 : i with American shrewdness was such as not to attract | is keeping their | am plated the legal absurdity of attaching the City Hall, everybody in the State within an hour would know all about it. The newspapers, whose chief concern news being the valuable commodity in which they deal—have no secrets from the telephone compa- wies. If a man in Los Angeles were to telephone The | Call that the water lords of that city were about to relinquish their grip on the city's works, every news- yaper along the line would be in possession of the rformation immediately. This may all be stopped by law. The Legislature has power to regulate telephone corporations as well as telegraph companies, and it can enforce secrecy ong the operators of both. We are especially in- terested in the preservation of the property called news. The general idea seems to be that news re- sembles umbrellas in being the common property of mankind. But, nevertheless, it is a valuable modity, and the newspapers are entitled to have it protected froft robbers as well as other business men are entitled to the protection of their money, dia- monds and watches, [ ) the years of industrial depression and financial stringency, the managers of that enterprise nof only accomplished a great work, but encouraged the s com- LOCAL RAILWAY PROJECTS. . Y the construction of the Valley Road during only is it casier for talk to leak than for tickers to be | wires is public property, and it is reasonably safe to | that if a business man in San Francisco were to | | telephone his partner in Sacramento that he contem- | ormation dark until it is published | THAT UTAH CONGRESSMAN. N the State of Utah women vote and are eligible I to office. At the first State election women were chosen to the Legislature. They take part, quite generally, in primary politics, and appear as dele- gates in State conventions, where they are heard as well as seen. S In the last Democratic State convention, when Mr. Roberts was proposed as the nominee for Congress, a lady delegate made a speech against him, in which she in elaborate detail gave the reasons why he should not be nominated. She said she was prepared to prove that he was the father of three children, whose ages were only a few months apart, the off- spring of plural marriages, or polygamy. The issue was raised against him during the campaign, and no answer was made to it, except to charge that it was merely an appeal to religious prejudice as a force in politics. He was elected, and now the matter goes to the next House for test and trial. The best friends of the admission of Utah to state- hood were opposed to polygamy, and pledged the sin- cerity of the Mormon hierarchy and people in their abandonment of it. The Tucker-Edmunds law, up- held by the Supreme Court of the United States, had borne heavily upon the Mormons, and many of them had performed legal expiation of the offense of i polygamy. Among these Roberts himseli had stood imprisonment, upon due conviction. To the credit of human nature let it be admitted that the enforcement of the anti-polygamy law fur- nished many instances of sterling manhood on the part of the men convicted under it. They refused to abandon their plural wives to infamy and their chil- dren to the stain of illegitimacy, and while they prom- ised obedience to the law which punished them, made ample provision for their wives and children. But Utah was admitted to the Union, with a clause in her constitution making polygamy a felony and | upon a pledge to enforce it by legislation which would | give the courts jurisdiction. There is a question | among lawyers whether admission as a State ended Federal jurisdiction over this question. The con- stitution had to be passed upon by Congress, and the anti-polygamy provision became an act of Congress thereby. Whether thereaiter it became a State mat- ter solely may have to be determined. The people of a State have always been held to have the sole power | to change and amend their constitution, with the single limitation that it must conform to the constitu-~ tion of the United States. The latter instrument does not forbid polygamy. The domestic relations are by it left to State regulation. It did not forbid slavery, which existed solely as a domestic institution, created and protected by State constitutions and laws, until it was forbidden by the thirteenth amendment to the Federal constitution, which was declared to be rati- fied December 18, 1865. Since Utah was admitted the rumors of a return to | plural marriages in that State have risen and in- creased. The Gentile population is a small minority of the whole people. The Mormons, when united, can control the elections and the State polity without Gentile alliance and in defiance of the minority sen- timent. If they choose to use this power to return to a practice which they pledged themselves to aban- | don, as a condition precedent to statehood, they can do so, but they must take the consequences. There is no way by which a State may be expelled from the Union and reduced again to territorial subjection. | The proper mode for reaching the Utah case is by an | | N amendment to the Federal constitution prohibiting polygamy, to be enforced by appropriate legislation. This will make it a Federal question, the same as people of their sort into a like companionship. But | undertaking of other railway enterprises in the State. slavery, and it will be within the jurisdiction solely in dealing with Mexico we bought unpeopled land The encouragement, indeed, was of a substantial | of the Federal courts. The discussion of the Roberts | | and admitted the few civilized settlers to citizenship. | character, for if railway construction could be made | case has called out the expression of some singular In the Ph peopled land Human beings swarm there like ants. | it is certain that good results are to be expected of pincs, however, we are not buying un- | ,rofitable in the hard times we have just undergone, | views. United States Senator Cannon, himself a monog- s i iduals i ey own 2 y . > : ST o Ko . As individuals or tribes they own and occupy the | guch work now that we are fairly started upon a new | amist in practice, though a Mormon and the son of e drained to its sorry dregs the cup | The few who have gained | land. They of colénial experience. era of prosperity and business activity. One of the evidences of coming railway construc- | the matter by saying that free coinage of silver, and | one of the greatest men in the church, has dismissed great wealth are reported in favor of annexation 0 tion is to be found in the reports concerning the long | not polygamy, was the issue in the late campaign, “this country. in order that th der the protection of an American fleet and garrison. t It is said that these rich natives complain of Aguin- aldo that they paid to him a Jarge sum of money as a bribe to support annexation, and that he pr;cketed‘ the cash and came out for independence. This inci- | dent means that there is Filipino gold ready to pay | for the advocacy of annexation and that Aguinaldo | will not stay bought, because he is in the midst of | the people, wild and tame, who want no more colo- | nial government. Notwithstanding the prayer of the few rich for an- nexation, it is every day clearer that if we buy the| Philippines of Spain we are buying the privilege of | conquesting them. There are ten millions of people | -in those islands, and Spain has had jurisdiction of only a small minority of them. A modern rifle can- non can fire a shot from the shore and its inward | range will nearly everywhere cover the narrow rim | that has really belonged to Spain. Beyond that are | ‘the tribes which are drawn upon for a fighting forc by the revolutionists, like Aguinaldo, and have been | use.! time and again to force Spain to pay for a peace which she would not conque - in that climate by arms If we are to pay twenty millions, it is just two dol- lars per head for the Filipinos, Buddhists, Moham- medans and all. If they are worth it they ought not | to be sold. If they are not we ought not to buy them. With their climate as an ally they can make the effec- | ‘tive assertion of our jurisdiction cost us ten| times what we pay per head for them. It is amaz _irig that the American people should abandon them- ! _ selves to such a hasheesh dream as ownership of | these islands. Senator Morgan aids the delusion by‘ an interview in which he vaunts their “vast and im- | _measurable wealth.” Spain has been exploiting | “them for centuries. She has driven their people to Jebor performed unwillingly, as all labor in the tropics is. Their production of hemp, sugar, rice and to-| - hacco has been forced by Spain for the benefit of the few rich and the Chinese who control th trade. With all this. forcing the. total trade of the whole archi- pelago, imports and exports, is only thirty-two mil- | lions of dollars a vear. This sum, generated by the producing and consuming capacity of ten millions of - people, so fires the fancy of Senator Morgan that he sees in it the evidence of “vast and immeasurable wealth.” California, with but little over one-tenth the num- " ber of people, exports forty millions a year of the sur- plus “products of her mines, orchards, fields, vine- fortunes may be un- | yards, forests and waters! The Philippines produce a | total trade equal to three dollars and twenty cents per head of the population,, while California exports nearly forty dollars per head! We invite the attention of Senator Morgan's sumptuous and tropical imagination to the statistics of California’s trade. I the people are to pay twenty millions, or two dollars per head for the Filipinos, who generate a trade of only three dollars and twenty cents per head, * why not do a little more for California, whose people produce in exports alone more than twelve times as much? S ———————C | sible, however, for the old-time monopol projected road from Fresno to Monterey. Definite information is said to have been received that con- tracts have been given for the construction of the road from Monterey to Hollister, and “semi-official” authority is quoted for a statement that the work of building a wharf at Monterey will commence early in December. Good reasons exist for regarding these reports as reliable. It is known that all necessary rights of way for the proposed road have been obtained through San Benito County, and it is announced that steps have been taken toward getting ‘he right of way through Salinas Valley to Salinas. It is believed that no great difficulty will be met in getting the required right of way, and the people along the line are san- after New Year. Active work upon the proposed roa! will be an- other inducement to the managers of the Southern Pacific to fulfill their long neglected pledges to com- plete the connecting link in their. line of railway through the coast counties. The rights of way across the existing gap in the line were given years ago [upon a promise that the road would be undertaken at once and pressed to a speedy completion. The company, however, has played fast and loose with its promises and the gap is still open. It will be impos- this policy of stagnation in face of the competition it will have in the new routes, and that company also may begin to display some activity in railway con- struction before thé coming year is ended. THe undertaking of the Fresno and Monterey road, which is to connect the valley with the sea, will have the effect of stimulating a similar project in the northern part of the State of connecting Humboldt Bay with the interior. There is a rich region of coun- try to be opened up in that section of the State by railroad builders, and now that better times have come and capital is seeking investment it is not likely that the advantages of Northern California will be overlooked, or that enterprising capitalists will ig- nore the profits to be made by assisting in its develop- ment. Frank Belew's heirs will be enriched by the mur- der he committed. Had Belew been acute he would have killed the rest of his brothers and gone to the gallows serenely conscious that the crime of neglect- ing to provide for his little ones could not be charged against him. S o For swindling the susceptible public two so-called pugiiists the other night acquired $15,000 each. “What fools these mortals be” is still an apt expres- sion. chance they will be taken in again. Constable Matthews of Milpitas, who killed an in- offensive boy, will go to San Quentin for five years. As many a better man has gone to the gallows for a less crime, Matthews might well while away his spare time in congratulating himself. At least the beautiful young lady who came out here to christen the Wisconsin can never complain The wife of Dreyfus is very ill, a circumstance which may be regarded as a new triumph for France. that the papers did not make her look like a variety of handsome women of a wide range of types. to continue | Indeed, such fools are they that at the first | | and it will do no good to refuse his seat to Roberts | for the State will elect a free silver man in his place. | Of course this is an apparent appeal along political | lines, and seems intended to create the impression | that the opposition to Roberts is really on account of | his financial views. !‘ If this be the Senator’s purpose, no clairvoyant | sight is required to see that it is merely special | pleading. No one cares what the financial views of Mr. Roberts may be. He is entitled to their possession | and expression. The whole country cares, however, | what his practices in his domestic relations may be. | Ii he is living in polygamy, in defiance of the funda- | mental law of his own State, in violation of the pledge | guine the work of construction will begin shortly | of the hierarchy of his church, and in defiance of the "moral sentiment of the American people, the House | cannot evade the issue presented. If, on proof of his | offense, the House seat him, it will be taken in Utah | as indorsement of the covert violation of the consti- | tution of the State, and what may now be assumed as |a secret relation will come to be practiced as openly | as it was before the Tucker-Edmunds law prohibited and punished it. If Roberts is denied his seat, the next step should be the reference of an anti-polygamy amendment to the constitution, for ratification by the States. The first Republican platform denounced the “twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy.” The party can only gain by standing by that declaration and adding to the abolition of slavery the Federal prohibition of plural marriage. e A threat to put a face on a man has heretofore been regarded as in the nature of a threat, but New York surgeons are going to try it, and from che kindliest of motives. Their subject was incautious enough to | blow his face off with a gun, and the men of science | think they can replace it with one on a celluloid foun- 1da.tion. The public’'s best wishes will attend their | efforts, and yet there is reason to fear the new phy- siognomy will never take a prize at a beauty show. The best use to make of features is not to blow them off. Probably the charge that jewels were stolen from the linen of a victim of the Baldwin fire and replaced by worthless imitations are unfounded. Thieves might have snatched the valuables, but they would not have lingered in the vicinity long enough to have done the rest. At least there is the excuse for fighting over the estate of James T. Murphy of San Jose that the es- | tate is of considerable value, and several people who would like the spending of it did not happen to be mentioned in the will. A Police Judge has just given a wife-beater ninety days. The sentence is not generous. Surely the Judge could have spared another ninety days. The way creditors are swooping down on Baldwin reminds one of the circling flight of pultures above a carcass. Racing may be a good thing. There may be too much of a good thing. e b l 8RB NRBRLVENNRNRN It had been my purpose to say this week something about Gertrude Ather- ton. Then occurred the reflection that she was nét worth the space. When there is no better topic than a sour malformation of feminine mentality I am ready to go out of the business of writing. Some anonymous friend sends a clip- ping from this column wherein was stated that Roosevelt had written him- self an ass, and that when he sought political preferment the fact would lead to his defeat. “A poor prophecy.” com- ments the unknown, which is so pain- fully true that, dimly remembering the statement, I had been afraid it would be taken from the files and hurled at me. Nevertheless, I weaken no whit on the proposition that Roosevelt did write himself an ass. As to the result of this I was mistaken. It would seem that to so write oneself is the way to get into public favor. However, I | acknowledge that as a prophet Roose- velt’s election knocks me out. Not be- ing the seventh son of a seventh son, nor born with a caul, I look into the future with difficulty. e Strange questions come to this de- partment, questions clearly designed for the query editor, who has grown gray in the acquisition of wisdom and draws a salary for dispensing it. For instance, I am asked to give an opinion as to phrenology. By this term the ordinary intelligence means craniology, as taught by Gall and later expounded by Fowler and others of his school. In other words, they mean the science of bumps, which is not a science at all, but may be a fad or a fraud according to the understanding of the advocate thereof. In a general way something may be told of mental or even of moral characteristics by the shape of the skull, yet to dally with the protuber- ances of the dome of thought and essay from the impression gathered to out- line the worth, the ability and the im- | pulses of the subject is, in my estima- tion, as foolish and futile as to feel a man’s biceps and proclaim what he has | eaten for breakfast. The interior sur- face of the skull does not conform to the exterior surface. The bump on the outside may be but the visible indica- tion of an osseous thickness fully as apparent inside. Investigation is ham- pered by the necessity for an autopsy to determine this point. There are people with similar heads and wholly different conceptions of life. There are people governed by kindred impulses, yet bearing no cranial resemblance. I | once knew a skeptic to be examined by | a disciple of Fowler, and he was told | that he was lacking in the organ of veneration. “In fact,” said this wise disciple, “so for as religious conception goes, you are an idiot.” Yet this moral idiot was shortly after that converted to Christianity and became one of the most ardent worshipers at the shrine of orthodoxy. He developed no new bumps. There are gentlemen who have, | theoretically, the heads of assassins, thieves and degenerates, but who are | wholly trustworthy. There are rascals of saintly conformation, dolts with the | brows of a Webster, savants who would | be lost under a No. 7 hat. Therefore, my faith in craniology is absent. I re- gard it as a little better than palmis- try, because its devotees, with a strange and interesting confidence, think that their belief has some basis. T The same inquirer wants to know the utility of phrenologv in the treatment of disease. If anybody has an explana- tion I will gladly surrender space to it. Certainly men have been benefited by | the sudden erection of bumps even by | 80 crude an appliance as a rolling-pin. | This however, refers to their moral betterment. oS Once more I wish to protest against the lingual abortion, “Varsity.” There is no sense to it, no excuse for it. It offends the senses. We might as rea- sonably call the great scheme in which we form a petty part a varse. ot In a fashion so gentle as to hardly be a rebuke, I am corrected by Editor Robertson of the Placerville Nugget for having expressed sympathy for young Rosser, now on trial here for murder. However, that expression of sympathy had no string attached. To feel sorry for a man is far from hold- ing him blameless. Knowing himself possessed of a violent temper, readily inflamed by liquor, Rosser should have remained sober. However, the saloon keepers who sold him stuff no better than poison must share, morally, the burden of his guilt. It is notorious that the volunteer soldiers here were lured into dives, doped, robbed and thrown out. In many instances they were found wandering penniless about the streets the night after pay day, crazy and irresponsible, evidently not the victims of bad whisky so much as the victims of drugs administered along with it. That there were so few bloody escapades was a stroke of good for- tune. However, this is no plea for Rosser. The matter is in the courts, the proper place for its adjudication. Ok e A queer story comes out of Chicago that women have decided that the silk skirt must go. They reached this mo- mentous decision at one of the con- gresses which to the feminine soul is ever a joy. Similar congresses from time to time decree that the corset is an evil, the street sweeping dress a menace to health and destructive of cleanliness. Undoubtedly the women are sincere at the moment, but they go to their several homes, and the first time they robe for a swell function have an extra cinch taken in their cor- sets, even if to do so thev have to tie the string to a bedpost. Also they do not have the train snipped from the condemned street raiment, but move along the pave in trailing majesty, clearing it of detritus as they go. Therefore no fears need be felt for the future of the silk skirt. Long will its delicately suggestive frou-frou continue to charm. The silk skirt is a delight. The plea that the noise of it racks the nerves is born of envy. On’ the contrary it soothes the ear. It is charged against the garment that worshipers are dis- turbed, or the theater audience driven to frenzy by the racket the tardy lady makes upon entering. The lady her- self Is to blame. She has no business to be tardy. Let the fault rest upon her and not upon her innocent bedecking. Civilization has not reached that stage at which it can spare the shimmer of the visible skirt nor the silken rustle by which its presence is announced. The proposed war would not only be fool- ish but useless. Let the ladies get the aotion that the congregation notes the | IREEEENERRNRERREVRVRRIES BRRBRIBRT WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. BRSNS NTYRINRRRRRRR S & 2 @ Ed 8 noise of their incoming, and two silk skirts will grow where there is ore now. * The matter-of-fact way in which great problems are referred to this de- partment would be flattering if they brought with them any assurance of ability to furnish the solution. A letter has just been received asking for an expression of views as to woman's rights, woman’s suffrage, their mutual relation, and the relation of both to the home and to society. One objection to discussing these matters is the im- possibility of saying anything new con- cerning them. They came into exist- ence in some form shortly after Adam lost a rib, and varying to suit different conditions have been in existence ever since. Probably when the heavens shall roll up as a scroll and the light of regions hevond be shed directly into the material universe its first ray will search out an advocate of woman's rights, and the music of the celestial choir drown with difficulty the vocife- ration of her opinions. Another objec- tion is that people holding certain views concerning the subject continue to hold them. Reason cannot shake them, nor eloquence appeal. However, the ideas of an humble individual, while possess- ing absolutely no value in themselves, can do no harm, so here goes. If a woman desires to vote, I cannot think of an excuse for preventing her, save the personal regard it is natural for men to hold toward her. By asking the privilege of voting she mars a high ideal, steps into an atmosphere where the barriers of veneration which now shield her are threatened. If she exer- cises the ballot these barriers are swept away. No person of sense would de- prive a woman of her rights. This is far from meaning that every man of sense would encour»~» her in an ambi- tion to vote. Women now have every right, except that of going to the polls. This would have been given to them long ago had the best interests of the nation and of the home demanded it. Instead of having to seek it, it would have been thrust upon them. The Su- san B. Anthonys and Anna B. Shaws are not fair specimens. They have none of the instincts which make women be- loved of men, lead to the establishment of the home and gladden the household with affection that increases with years. Women have a right to defer- ence and protection. Would they for- feit it? They have the right of reigning queen over the domestic circle. They have the right of forming their chil- dren into good and useful citizens. In many instances this carries with it un- restricted participation in comforts and luxuries earned and gladlv bestowed by the man. It is his to provide. Certainly in this joint partnership she should have equal voice, and usually this is granted without thought of it being a concession. In a thousand ways women are taught that men esteem -them. Even so small a thing as the surrender of a seat in a street car has its signifi- cance. It is not because men think women inferior that they object to the extension of suffrage, but for exactly the contrary reason. They do not want woman to come down from her lofty estate. They want her to remain where she is, so that she can remain what she | is. In Colorado, a State in which the average of intelligence is high, the| women can vote as freely as the men. | The experiment has proved a dismal failure. An excess of gallantry, an overplus of Anthony and Shaw, brought about the arrangement, and now the discovery is made that the women do not care to vote. They are not interested in politics, and I hope they will never be. A man engages in politics only at the peril of his reputa- tion; he has less to lose than a woman. If the time ever shall come when the mothers and wives ask for suffrage they will get it. They can have any- thing it is in the power of man to give. If they will observe narrowly they will ascertain that most a man achieves is to enable him to make some woman happy. But a Shaw can have only a negative influence, unless in excep- tional circumstances. She is a preacher, a lawyer and a doctor of medicine, as well as a lecturer drawing fat stipends. Yet she has the unspeakable nerve to mount the rostrum and vowl that in this country her down-trodden sex has no rights. She is, of course, insincere, since she cannot be accused of foolish- ness. No concern need be felt for the shouting Shaws. They can take care of themselves. But for the true woman, whatever her station, men have a ten- der and. I believe, unselfish regard. Therefore it seems to me all this agita- tion is superfluous, that it does no pos- sible good and may easily work ill. Let women be as they are—sweet, gracious, superior. € e Mormonism seems bent on hara-kiri. A few years ago the laws on the sub- ject became so strict and their enforce- ment so rigid that the Mormon shunted his superfluous wives into the back- ground and made pretense that he was in a state of single married blessed- ness. Then Utah was admitted as a State, and the followers of Brigham be- lieved that they were beyond control. They corraled the stray wives and set up housekeeping on the old wholesale plan. Outsiders were not aware of this. They thought that reform had been genuine. Thus the polygamists waxed bold, and, not content with herding the seasoned wives back to the domestic pasture, laid in a stock of new ones. When the time arrived for sending a man to Congress they selected a polys- amist whose latest wife was numbered 4 and who had blessed him with a pair of twins. That his election was an in- sult to the nation, to the.decency of its men and the purity of its women, needs no saying. Therefore, will the polygamist be denied a seat in the Con- gress his presence would disgrace and attention be directed again to the shameless condition of affairs in Utah. In the end the erring people will be driven forth. They do not dovetail with civilization. Their place is in the wilderness, where they may be a statute unto themselves. They had a chance to mend their ways and ignored it. Instead of laying aside the degrad- ing customs which make their religion to be abhorred, they flaunt in the face of an enlightened people a deflance of written and unwritten regulations. Roberts will be refused a seat. So should all of his kind. But as they will decline to give up hablts disgusting and unpardonable, in the end they will seek another place, In this land, where the integrity of the family relation is the cornerstone of society, they must be, so long as they remain, allens and strangers. R et Profound as, is human respect for the dead; instinctively as one bares the head in the still city where friends and strangers lie sleeping under the bloom of flowers, there is something inexora- ble about material progress. Its ad- vance cannot be stopped by a marble shaft, and the most stately mauso- leum can hardly more than stay it briefly. In the end the grassy avenue between the tombs becomes the paved and noisy street. The dust of those who rest is removed. The marble shaft rears itself farther from the haunts of men. The mausoleum, stone by stone, is rebuilded in another spot. San Fran- cisco has to face the problem which sooner or later is met by every muni- cipality, and ever with a single result. When the interests of the quick ci h with the seeming interests of the dead, the quick prevail. After all, even from a sentimental point of view, there are two sides to the question. TIs it not better that our loved ones shall be placed in their final peace far from the busy haunt, away from the mart of trade, out of sight of the heedless passer-by? There is something incon- gruous in the presence of a burial ground where carts and cars go rattling by. It should be where quiet reigns, and if sentiment is to guard our dead let it guard them against the trespass of those whose summeons has not yet come. It seems to mé a pity that any more interments should be permitted in the cemeteries about and beyond which the city is growing. Their fate is inevitable. Sooner or later they will be abolished, "nd as this is so, why, the sooner the better. There will be all sorts of hindrances, but they will be futile. A cemetery does not belong in the center of population and it cannot remain there indefinitely. My personal belief is that there should be no burial, but that the body should by fire be re- duced at once to its original elements, rather than undergo the slow process of decay, causing the danger of corrup- tion to the earth and the air. Never- theless, burials will be continued for many years, but at least they should be conducted with a view to the pro- tection of the living and proper respect to the dead. This cannot be done while the burial place infringes upon the ground where press the feet of the hur- rying, careless multitude. A WARNING TO KICKERS. A sad-eyed mule stood in the rain, Tired was he and sick; But against all proffered sympathy He stubbornly did kick. A cat came up to share his woes, With mew and gentle purr; But she, alas! was soon transformed Into fiddle strings and fur. A yellow dog next offered to His trials and troubles share; And a moment later sausage meat ‘Was flylng through the air. Then little John, the farmer's son, Attempted, to his sorrow, To_drive him under shelter, but— His funeral is to-morrow. A blinding flash, an awful roar— He hadn’t time to duck it; No friendly lightning-rod was nigh— The mule he kicked the bucket. —From the Chicago News. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A little boat is seen afloat Upon the moonlit water, In which a“youth does sit, forsooth, With his neighbor’s daughter. He hugs the shore a mile or more, Along the laughing water; Then lets the boat Serenely float And hugs his neighbor’s daughter. —Chicago News. Hattle—You are looking rather palé of late. Why don’t you do as I do, take a two-mile walk every morning for your complexion? Ella—And do you really do that? 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