The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1898, Page 6

A BER 20, 1898. HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEM THE ADULTERATED WINE. T (IS indeed to be lamented that there is a general admission of the fact that the wine seized in Mex- JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) 1s served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE.... One year, by mall, $1.50 ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE... Room I88, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. ...Marquette Bauilding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'cloek. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAlilster street, open until 9:30 >clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. W41 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 06 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll S o'clock. AMUSEMENTS Columbia—*A Parlor Match. California—"'0'Brien, the Contractor.’” tes—Gorilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. r Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. AUCTION SALES, By Sullivan & Doyle—Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 327 Sixth street, at 1l'a. m., Road Carts, Horses, etc. U ——————————— CORRUPTION ON DISPLAY. HE time has come for a protest against the crowds who go to the Botkin trial. So un- filthy are the proceedings that re- ed as they are to every phase of life, the fetid ordeal. speakably porters, accu would fain e courtroom is t tors are won the ironged daily, and among the specta- d girls. The admission must be ment and shame. Nevertheless, made with astoni These females, if they wholly lack the decency belonging to their sex, if they are without a sense of modesty to which to 1, should be driven away by the clubs of the appea ecks craned and ears alert to catch bit, these brazen harpies constitute a I hur the man Dunning was on the stand. It has been said t ity blushes. t he is a degenerate, and he is prov- ing the estimate correct. Accord: to his story he science or suggestion of moral quality. <o debased as to be almost beyond | U ed his associates. athed Finally, nhood within him being d to reveal his partners in other in jail for contempt now—contempt but if he had senses to realize with, w that has a creature been dragged from the slums into the light and made a figure so contemptible self, and a normal im- ich he was a participant. court me he would seldom as pulse would be to ask for the darkest cell, slink into the darkest corner of it, and pray for death. Dunning says that San Francisco is on a low moral pl Perhaps it is. It tolerated him for a time, and it can still produce petticoated freaks who will listen while he details a depravity so foul that the soul shrinks from him, and the mind wonders that such a degenerate can exist and move among men. \)\ valiant deed, it must be remarked that by the X 2id of divers women the young officer is rap- idly changing into a star spangled ass. When the kissing business is carried to an extreme it becomes disgusting. To place a respectful salute upon the chaste lips of beauty is ever a delight, but merely to smack each female in a long procession filing by with mouths pursed and heads perked for promotion of the osculatory riot is another thing. e kiss bestowed under the calcium glare loses its charm; given for the joying of the gallery, it becomes a spectacle at the which strong men shudder. Several ladies have declined to kiss Hobson. Their names should be writ large. They are not hysterical, slobbery, hero worshipers, but give evidence of hav- ing been blessed with sense and modesty. Hobson was once given credit for similar attributes, but his judgment seems to have oozed from him. He has caught the infection of foolishness. Such promiscuous kissing recalls the theory of mi- crobes, which asserts that organisms, concealed within the mouth, spring forth when another mouth gets too close, carrying with them all manner of ills. If the microbe theory is correct, Hobson will sweep across the country like a plague. From the Atlantic to the mid-West he has been harvesting the microbes, and as he gathers them, so must he scatter. In the rosebud of the garden lurks the worm, and in the labial rosebud there may lurk the germ of phthisis, dyspepsia, disordered liver. Let Hobson beware. He is doing the country a wrong. If he but garnered these bacteria to flourish in his own system, why he is brave and may not shrink from the risk, but as he kisses from shore to shore, so must he leave in his wake a train of disorders. Moreover, some male, not carried away by the august presence of Hobson and desiring a monopoly of the favors usually granted by a wife or a sweet- heart, may object to seeing a lady love put on ex- hibition as one striving for the prize for silliness, and smite the hero of the Merrimac. Anyhow the cus- tom will lead to trouble. What lover cquld patiently endure to witness the cheapening of privileges he had regarded as all his own? Some foolish females may find, if they want to be kissed again, that they will have to hunt up Hobson and once more stand in line. Hobson must be given to understand in advance that he can’t kiss San Francisco girls as a candidate kisses babies. They do not have to await the im- portation of a hero to get all the kisses good for them. KISSING AS A BUSINESS. ITH all respect for the memory of Hobson's Perhaps the trip of the Kaiser to the Holy Land was not a success, but we hesitate to ascribe this, as a French paper does, to the fact that he found him- self unable to walk on the Sea of Galilee. It was about time anyhow for the Cincinnati to strike a rock or something. Too long a period of good luck would have made the crew apprehensive. A clairvoyant declares there will be a dry season for two years and that Burns will be defeated. This makes a fair.average of luck, - N Dl;(,EMfiER 20, 1808 l ico was treated with salicylic acid, and it is de- plorable that an attempt is made to conceal responsi- bility and to justify the adulteration. One of the men connected with the organization which supplied this condemned shipment and which controls the commerce in our wines, after laying it on the country vintners and declaring it impossible to test all the wines shipped By his association, says there is no harm in salicylic acid, anyway, and that | it must be used in young wines sent into the Mexican climate. The earlier authorities do not assign pois- | onous principles to salicylic acid. It is the active chemical principle found in the bark and leaves of the willow, the “salix,” from which it derives its name. It is not confined to the willow, however, but is found in the oil of wintergreen and other vegetable substances, and also in some minerals. Its effect is to arrest fermentation. It is used to arrest the natu- ral and necessary fermentations in dry wines, so as to put them on the market as aged wines, when, in fact, they are young, raw, crude and unwholesome. | Various chemical authorities are referred to by the | wine man we have quoted in proof of his assertion that this drug is harmless, and in the same breath he speaks of its use on young wines? For what pur- pose? Obviously for no other than to arrest the cleansing process of fermentation which makes them fit for use. If salicylic acid were harmless as rain- water in itself, but by arresting fermentation left wine tc life, its use is fatal to health and against the law. The chemical opinion of its benign use in catsup is quoted, as if the fermentation of wine and catsup were analogous. The fermentation of catsup is de- leterious and destructive. It is not to cleanse and purify, but to render unwholesome, and therein is exactly the reverse of the natural fermentation of wine. Therefore the same agent which would sup- press fermentation in both would made the wine dangerous to health, but leave the catsup innocuous and wholesome, provided the agent itself were non- toxic. The wine men defend the use of this drug by de- claring that a drinker gets more of it in a glass of beer than in a gallon of wine. Perhaps these apolo- gists are not awarefthat life insurance companies are more afraid of the modern beer drinker, and shy from him oftener as a risk, than of the confirmed con- sumer of straight whisky. This was not the case un- der the old system of low brewed beer, ripened in months of storage in the cellars. The modern beer drinker is subject to troubles of the liver and kidneys, to Bright's disease, diabetes, | acute nephritis and similar ills, and if it be true that | modern beer is treated with salicylic acid to age it | prematurely, only another reason against using this | drug is supplied. | We cannot avoid the feeling that the tone assumed | by the wine men in discussing this incident is de- | plorably damaging to California wine interests. It | is not true that the climatic change between this State and the central plateau of Mexico makes neces- sary the use of this acid in wines to preserve them. It they are properly aged and fermented they need | no such treatment, or, if they do, they should not be | sent where they require it. A market should be | sought where they can be used in their purest and | best state, and they should be sent there in that state | and in no other. They should be aged, that is to say, be cleansed by | natural fermentation, and should not go to the con- | sumer until that process is finished. | It is evident that greed, grasping for the price of cld wine for young, is responsible for this incident | in Mexico. Greed, not long ago, mixed five barrels | of young California brandy with eighty barrels of raw | igh wines only two months out of a Nebraska dis- tillery, and about twenty-five barrels of water and coloring and flavoring drugs, and branded it “old California Grape brandy,” and the Collector of the Port in San Francisco, with a knowledge of its make- | up, officially connived at its shipment to England under that lying brand. | If these things are to go on, the vineyards of this | State may as well be grubbed out, for in a few years no one will touch a California wine or brandy. Some missionary should go and preach to the wine association that commercial honor is commendable | altogether, and that to admit, deplore and justify in one breath the adulteration of wine is destructive ofi trade. T can labor, has found a new argument. that a New York bank has cut the rate of interest | to 3% per cent per annum, and that in order to bring | interest back to its former proportions new fields for the investment of capital must be found. Imperial- | ism, therefore, is to accomplish the double purpose | of enabling capital to secure enormous profits abroad | and to check enterprise at home. This is a frank admission which will be duly appreciated by Ameri- cat. citizens whom the Examiner endeavored to bully into the support of the fusion platforms and candi- dates on the ground of hostility to trusts, corpora- tions and the aggressions of the money power. A ing for future elections by ballot machine voting. The issue is more warmly discussed in the East than elsewhere, but in a general way all sections of the Union are showing interest in it. The cause of the increased support given to the plan is the success attained with machine voting in New York during the recent election. While ballot- ing by machinery has not been adopted in New York as a State system, the law permits the local adoption of it, and in the last election such machines were used ac Rochester, Utica, Jamestown, Hornellsville and scveral smaller communities. Reports from all of these show that the results were in every respect sat- isfactory. From our Eastern exchanges we learn that in all of these places the use of the machines not only gave the results of the election more promptly than was possible by the old system of counting, but that there was a great economy in their use. In Rochester it is estimated the saving amounted to $12,000 and in a town as small as Jamestown with a voting strength’of only 3400 the City Clerk estimates the saving in sala- ries amounted to upward of $800 and the saving in printing and other expenses brought the total up to $1800. Estimates of this kind founded on actual experi- ence from tests made in a considerable number of cities are valuable. They afford a basis on which safe calculations can be made, and deserve the attention of all legislators who are desirous of providing an economical as well as a safe and speedy method of conducting elections. 4 The report made-bw-the committee-appoi [ | Ad NEW ARGUMENT. HE Examiner, which advocates the conversion It is | BALLOT MACHINE VOTING. S THE time draws near for the Legislatures of the various States to assemble, an increased loaded with the organic matter which is dangerous | = of the Philippines into a sweat-box for Ameri- | consideration is given to the subject of provid- | the California Legislature of 1897 is good as far as it | goes, and shows a careful inquiry into the construc- | tion and merits of the various machines submitted for | investigation, but it ought to be supplemented by a report upon the results of the tests in New York. No experimental investigation, however carefully and | intelligently made, can be of equal value to the test of actual operation in elections where large numbers of voters make use of the machines, and that is the | test which the New York elections afford. | In the East the subject is being urgently pressed | upon public attention, and it seems fairly certain that | in many States the New York plan of local option will be followed, while in some a State system of | machine voting will be adopted. . California should | | not be a laggard in the reform. Qur system of voting is costly, the counting is slow and subject to frauds. | Any system which will decrease the cost and increase Ethe rapidity and the honesty of the count is certainly | to be desired. | GOOD THAT ROSSER DID. f NDIGNATION aroused by the farcical verdict | ! | which held young Rosser not guilty, after he had taken the life of an inoffensive and worthy man, | | has not yet died away. That verdict, as we have said before and may again, was a disgrace to everybody | | concerned. However, some good may come of it. | | Peculiarly pitiful was the figure cut by the police. | Had Chief Lees been half as active in efforts to prove the guilt of Rosser as he was in proving the | innocence of Figel, the Kentucky soldier would be in the penitentiary now, instead of on his way home- | ward. No official interest seemed to be taken in the | prosecution. Chief Lees was sputtering over the | Botkin case, and the prosecutor who had the conduct- ling of the Rosser trial was a weak sister at the law, or | had no desire to convict. By the phrasing of his | questions he shut out testimony which would have | been effective in establishing the guilt of the prisoner. | He displayed no vigor in hunting up witnesses, nor | extracting information from them if they happened | to be found. The jury may claim to have been guided by the in- structions of Judge Wallace, and if they were, no wonder that aged jurist was so sick that he had to get another member of the bench to read the instructions. { Even the manner of the reading was bad. Th.c.sul?-’ | stitute took no interest and his elocutionary ability is | limited. However, if Judge Wallace was to blame, iand we would regard his instructions as strongly | biased in favor of the prisoner, he will go from office with a stain on his record. Chief Lees professes great indignation at the mis- | carriage of justice, but he does not go to the extenf | of declaring himself incompetent and resigning. Deputy Hinkle yowls feebly at the result, but neither does he seem to think of getting out of the way and giving some conscientious deputy a chance to enforce the law rather than bring it intd ridicule. Despite all these facts, disgraceful as they are, the Rosser verdict may be productive of good. It has revealed again and emphasized the incompetency ofi Chief Lees; it has shown the folly of putting a lot of | conscienceless .dullards in the jury-box; and it has demonstrated that a prisoner with a pull can escape punishment for crime. There is a limit to endurance, and reform will follow. Rosser was not a moral man led suddenly to err. On the contrary he was quarrel- some and dangerous, a bully, shunned by his fellow- soldiers as a nuisance and charged with dishonesty. He had no spotless record to bring to court; there was no doubt as to his guilt, and yet he was turned loose. The outrageousness of the entire proceeding has impressed the people. They demand that such traves- ties shall cease. They demand that the senile Chief shall attend as well as he can to duty, that juries shall be sane, and courts unbiased. | | | AN IRREPRESSIBLE FREE TRADER. ENATOR VEST of Missouri is one of those free traders who have become too ol to learn from the events of the time, or to profit by the teachings of recent experience. His free trade ideas have become a monomania with him. Finding the general doctrine impracticable at this time, he is mak- ing a last ditch fight for free trade in ships. In discussing the subject in the Senate the other day | he bitterly denounced the recommendations of the President in favor of promoting the upbuilding of an American merchant marine by the construction of ships in our own shipyards. He maintained that the existing navigation laws of the country are bad, but that the adoption of the President’s policy would make the system worse. Warming to his theme he | said: “Let the American buy his ships where he can buy cheapest. Take off this relic of monarchy, this miser- | able legislation that prohibits an American from buy- ing where he can buy cheapest. Let him raise what | he pleases and carry it abroad in his own ship and under his own flag.” If Senator Vest were capable of learning anything from events going on around him he would perceive that the surest way of providing our merchants with the best ships at the lowest cost would be to build up American shipyards to compete with the foreigners. A few years ago steel plate was imported from Europe to this country. The Republican party gave protec- tion to the industry, and we are now manufacturing steel plate cheaper than any nation in the world and are actually exporting it to Great Britain. At the present time the material for ship building can be obtained more cheaply in the United States than anywhere else. Give the American shipbuilder a chance to build up his industry and without reduc- ing wages he will ere long be furnishing ships cheaper than the British. The history of the steel plant indus- I try will be repeated, and the protective system again vindicated. By adopting the free trade policy proposed by Sen- ator Vest our merchants would indeed obtain ships to carry our produce abroad, but our labor would be unemployed and our money would be sent out of the country to pay for the purchased ships. By adopt- ing the Republican policy we shall get the ships, em- ploy our labor and save our money at the same time. California has been aroused to a sense of demand- irg justice in the cases of people who shoot other people, yet here is pretty Evelyn Holt likely to es- cape trial for shooting at Conrad Fecker, although the evidence is conclusive that she did not kill him. One of the presents of the Sultan to the ruler of Germany was a lot of ground to which he held no title. The case is likely to lead to litigation so ex- tensive that in the interests of peace the Kaiser should haste to give a quitclaim. SRR An “aged” woman, who committed suicide in the park, now has a grievance almost sufficient to bring her to life. It seems that while reported as 6o in reality she was twenty years younger. An Oakland widow refused to tell her age in court and we are glad of it. The matter could not possibly have been any of the attorney’s business. The public will await with impatience the portrayal | BURNS' ELECTION AN INSULT TO MEXICO Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: There is a legal international point of law that I desire to call your attention to| which seems to have been overlooked. | and that is this: The Government of | the republic of Mexico has the lezal right to refuse to enter into any com- | pact or treaty with the United States Government, or have anything to do with it whatever, where the United| States Senate, or treaty-making or| treaty-confirming power, has within that body a criminal or one charged with crime under its laws and under | bonds, who had escaped or left that country to avoid the operations of law | or evade justice. National dignity and honor would naturally prompt Mexico to withdraw from all diplomatic inter- course, and deem it to be an insult to herself, to have one amenable for real or alleged criminal action, before its courts, to be made one of the highest | and treaty-making bodies of the United | States Senate; that is our local shame. But we cannot elect or place a man in that body who Is a fugitive under bonds and charged with crime by a friendly nation with which we are hold- ing international, commercial and financial relations, and especially. t00. with whom we have so recently mutu- ally elevated the respective Ministers to each country to the highest rank of Embassadors, and it would be a :u'r‘.ct and personal insult to him, as well as a national one to Mexico, to introduce to him, as a United States Senator. oue who was a fugitive from the courts :»t justice in Mexico and who, in both criminal and civic cases, is borne unon the calendars of their courts: and ‘il would properly be resented and justify Mexico in recalling her Embassador. Consuls and all who represent r!3-.> in- terests of Mexico in these United States. % ‘ For the above reasons Daniel A\,{'n- roe Bur is ineligible, and that kind of Monroe doctrine will burn itself sut States in any international matter | and will not, by the United States Gov- whatever. A criminal or rascal at home may. to our disgrace, be elected to the United ernment, be enforced. EDWIN A. SHERM San Francisco, December 19, 1898. N. GOOD WORK OF THE HANDSOME ACKNOWLEDGMENT FROM CALL APPRECIATED. THE CALIFORNIA RAISIN' GROWERS. FRESNO, Editor San Francisc Dear Sir: California, we desire Cal: Dec. 18, 1898. o Call, San Francisco— Representing the raisin growers of to ihank you most cor- dially for your earnest efforts in their be- half on former occasio assistance at the pre ns, and for your great sent time in opposing the proposed placing of Zante currants on the free list, and we assure you that your advocacy of our cause will ever be gratefully remem- bered by us. Very truly yours, California Raisin Growers' Association, > . %o c%:,:% President. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION OF THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION There is a great diversity of opinion | expressed as to the form of government which we should bestow on the Philip-| pine Islands so that we may safely strad- dle the fence which divides republican- ism from imperialism. The gravity of the question lies in that it will probably entail such an abrupt departure from the principles on which our republic has been | reared that it will be a source of contin- ual dissatisfaction in our midst. It is one thing to colonize on this continent and in territory adjacent to ourselves, and quite another thing to acquire territory over 7000 miles away. containing 8,000,000 peo- ple of a race, color, language and customs so entirely different from our own, and which people are incapable of self-gov- ernment and will be for decades, partic- ularly when this foreign territory lies di- rectly in the path of foreign complica- tions and its people can never become citizens of the United States and enjoy the privileges of which the American flag is the emblem. At this period it may not be amiss for any humble citizen of this country to offer suggestions as to the policy to be pursued. and some merit may be found in the following plan: First—Invite all nations to enter into a treaty guaranteeing the permanent integ-| ritv and neutrality of the Philippine | group In exchange for a slightly quali- | fied form of ‘“open door” policy, which will permit the United States to have the advantage of 2 per cent reduction from any prevailing tariff on import duties. Second—The governing power to be vested in a board of five Commissioners appointed by the President of the United States, to hold office at his discretion. Such are the essential features. THE TREATY. All nations desire equal trade and com- mercial privileges; they would prefer the Philippine group to be independent rather than that any single nation should own it; thus, in event of war, the islands would not change hands or become a fac- tor in political complications; they would be protected by all the powers from in- fringement of neutrality laws; they would enjoy perpetual peace with the out- side world. All first-class powers (with possibly one or two exceptions) now have trade relations with the Philippines which they do not wish d|lstulrbe‘\;l by ‘the“cm‘;xtxtirsy lusivel merican; ) ?telxex;gffi:deae::msh lnyterest—fllwnys the moat effective—that would persuade them Yo enter into such a treaty, and it is quite consistent with reason that they would naturally recognize the right of the Uni- ted States to have a preferential duty of 2 per cemt less on imports, which is due b reason. of conquest, and necessary through the higher price of labor in A 1a provide that citizens treal woul of any T party o the treaty would same rights to acquire property g;li;et(r‘;isact business as those of any other nation, including even the United States. Such nations as refused to be party to the treaty could be excluded en- tirely, or could be made to pay 50 per cent higher duties, and their citizens not allowed to become property holders or invested with the rights of citizens of nations. ma'ei‘;h a treaty of this character in force the question of an army, navy or forti- fications for the group would be entirely eliminated. In itself this would mean an enormous burden saved to the islands; or to the United States if it was obliged to assume the sole protection of the group. It does mnot require much profound thought to perceive what a colossal un- dertaking it would be for us to place the islands in such a defensive condition as would enable them to resist the attack of any first-class power. Would we not have lost them, had we owned them, if we had lately been at war with any of the powers except Spain? Of course, we Coulg thoroughly protect these islands—it only requires time and an enormous out- lay of money—but is the game worth the candle, and can we not, with the aid of the proposed preferential duty, advance our interests as much as we can reason- bly desire? ll"‘)tee trade with the islands would oc- casion no end of dissatisfaction and complications in the United States. We do not want competition with coolie labor. 1f we demanded that our imports into the islands should be free of duty, how could we discriminate nga(nst the products of the islands by a duty on their Imports into this country? And that leads us to ask, Where would the revenues neces- sary to support the islands come from if the Philippines received no_duty on_ their imports? Certainly the United States wouid not want to make immense appro- riations every year out of its treasury 0 support the group; and, finally, if we had free trade and all other nations paid the duty, they would be largely—if not entirely—shut out of trade h the isl- ands, and the loss of their present com- merce would make our possession of the grou? most unpopular and invite re- prisals, - & | the plane of civilization. It secures peace, under the protection of the world, to eight millions of peeple low in the scale of life, with the opportunity for their advance- ment. It would place us before the world as a benevolent power, not striving for foreign conquest so much as for freedom and liberty to mankind. It is out of the question to believe that Congress, with its ever shifting policy, due to party aims and frequent elections, can ever handle this matter with perfect satisfaction. We have not yet reached the zenith of self- government ourselves. Qur negro prob- Iem has not yet been settled on a basis ;{u‘!,lt( ]rl:{flg.tl{‘flfis us in the belief that our tates can expect to handle the mor: Silg;t;ulrlnnxll'rnhlmré of the go\‘emmim o% ons of a rac v know or understand. O ‘We have stray s too far already f (‘)urhfirst x;}r‘ln\.'mles. and we do no{ V\?:.:: 0 _have this matter a fe: v political campaign. s cvery THE GOVERNMENT. We must consider the group to be an estate, for which the United States is to assume the role of administrator, and ‘it must be kept out of the hands of tue poli- ticians. The President of the United States, by special act of Congress, should have the sole appointing power of five commissioners, to hold office during his pleasure, and each to receiv a salary of not less than $25,000 per annum, which woulc be an inducement to our best men to serve; they should also be provided with suitable quarters, all at the expense of the revenues of the islands. T - com- missioners should hold office during the 'easure of the President of the United tates, but should not otherwise be con- trolled by him. They are to take up their residence in Manila and are to be en- tirely free in their action, supreme in power to administer the affairs of the is- lands in every particular, make laws of every description, including tariff laws, inaugurate an unsectarian free school system, provide for judiciary and police, and, in fact, form a government that will be self-sustaining and conducted on busi- ness principles. Educate the natives; give them appoint- ments when their qualifications will per- mit, and invest them with equal rights. Educate abroad at the expense of the country a certain number of the Philip- pine youth, thus opening to them the op- portunity of mingling in the affairs of their own government. In the event of internal troubles, such as insurrections, support the commission- ers with American troops, with an Amer- ican army and navy, but payment to be made to the United States out of the rev- enues of the islands for the expense. Form a military gullce force of natives, well paid, and under guidance of Ameri- can officers. The commissioners to fill all offices with American citizens, except ‘where natives could more properly be em- Eluyed, the object of the whole being a eneficent fnvernment, satisfactory to the tenets of high civilization. FLAG. ° The islands should have a flag of their own, to be adopted by the commissioners, but not to be used on the high seas. This restriction would prevent possible compli- cations in event of war between any of the fi)owers party to the treaty, and would at the same time promote the patriotic in- stinct in the natives. Incidental to this plan, the commission- ers should pay to the United States out of the revenues of the islands $40,000,000, of which we are to pay Spain $20,000,000 under our treaty of peace, the balance to be re- tained by the United States as indemnity toward the cost of war expenses. Possi- bly it might be found expedient not to ex- act this latter sum. The commissioners would divide their government into departments, at the head of which they would place responsible and efficient Americans. These various depart- ments would require an enormous number of offices to be fille., whic.. would open opportunities for American citizens, and this, together with the 2 per cent pref- erential duty, would be a source o mense stren; the islands. FREE TRADE AND PROTECTORATE. It must be remembered that the Chi- nese are a prominent feature in the popu- lation of the islands. Are we going to apply the exclusion law to them? ree trade . between the Philippine Islands and the United States is as im- \fisible as between the United States and na. What would a protectorate mean? Sim- ply that, for the sake of a portion of the trade of the islands the United States would tax its people and sacrifice their lives for the defense of the [slands out of all proportion to the benefits received from trade. If we need a coaling station for war purposes we can find one outside of the group. THOSE WHO WILL OPPOSE THIS PLAN. im- gth to us in the commerce of 1. The average politiclan, hungry for the spolls. 2. That portion of our manufacturing el- em:yfi' wl‘m ;vm a:: for lfrea t‘nde. having no ing to fear emselves from compe- tition with the islands. » 3. The jingo, who believes in expansion at any cost. A few short months ago none of these classes would have advocated accepting the islands as a present, but now that we have them they are wlhlng to go to the extreme and will x‘:’ot favor any moderate or conservative ey, _ In.conglusion I believe that-the plan out- lined, when understood by the insurgent element, will sn:!si them if they can be satisfied with anything reasonable. With the knowledge that the powers of the world are arrayed against them and that the Government proposed for them will insure liberty, equality and advancement, freedom from rellfilous intoleration and unjust taxes, if they do not lay down their arms then, under such conditions, we would indeed have a stupendous and costly task to control them under any other form of policy. This plan simply cuts the group loose from the United States as far as politics is concerned and provides for its affairs being conducted on business principles, under the protection of the world. The responsibility for the abuse of pow- er by the Commissioners would be with the President of the United States, he having the privilege of revoking their ap- pointment. a‘%mm S eS;mncds AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. W. N. Sherman of Merced is at the Lick. M. Cummings of Norfolk, Va., is at the Russ. J. G. Pope of Seattle is a guest at the Lick. Fred F. Burns of Vancouver {s at the | Lick. F. A. Hihn of Santa Cyuz is at the Occl- dental. Dr. S. L. Walton of San Jose is at the Palace. N. A. McKay of Angels is registered at the Lick. James E. Roach of Albany is a guest at the Grand. A. W. Pickard of Utica is registered at the Grand. Dr. W. H. Da Occidental. State Senator Thomas Flint Jr.. is at the Palace. P. H. Coffman of Red Bluff is staying at the Grand. I N. Peyton of Spokane is registered at the Palace. State Senator W. the Occidental. Mrs. J. G. James at the Occidental. Henry Young Jr. at the Occidental. Frank McArthur, from Fall River Mills, is at the California. E. A. Eaton, a merchant of Salinas, is staying at the Lick. Attorney William O. Minor of Modesto is a guest at the Lick. C. M. Fickert of Stanford University is staying at the Palace, W. R. Junker, chief clerk of the Del Monte, is at the Palace. J. F. Lynn and C. E. Minor of St. Louis are guests at the Grand, Augustus Seekamp, a miner of Mexico, is a guest at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Latham of Los Angeles are at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Campbell of Boston are at the Occidental. Charles E. Hale, a prominent merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. O. E. Williams, proprietor of the Grand Hotel at Ukiah, is at the Grand. L. S. Burrell, a miner from Dawson City, is a guest at the Occidental. R. F. Pixley of New York and J. C. Ells of Dayton, Ohio, are at the Palace. D. R. Cameron, a prominent commis- sion merchant from Hanford, is at the Lick. J. Gavey and M. Cooper, tourists from London, who are connected with the mail service, are at the Palace. Second Lieutenant Joseph F. Gohn, Fourteenth United States Infantry, is at the Occidental. He arrived pesterday on the Scandia from Manila on sick leave. H. C. Bush, general agent of the freight department of the Santa Fe, and L. A. Mills, contracting freight agent of the same line, have returned from Chicago, where they went on a business visit. ——e—e——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—A. R. McCreery of San Francisco is at the Holland; A. B. Bowers of San Francisco is at the Im- perial; Mrs. E. Acklom of San Fran- cisco is at the Gerard. —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FOR THE STAGE—J. W., City. If you have an idea that you are fitted for tne stage and you desire to ascertain if you really are, consult some teacher of elocu- tion. You will find the addresses of such in the City Directory. THE TAX RATE-J. W. L., City. The tax rate in ‘Sacramento city is $345 on each $100 valuation, the municipal tax be- ing $2 04; State and county tax (in the clty), §150; same (in county), $1 60; State :?X alone, 48.8 cents on each $100 valua- on. FALL OF SNOW—C. M., City. The lat- est fall of snow in San Francisco was on the 2d of March. 18%. The snow, how- ever, melted on reaching the ground. It remained for some time on Mount Tamal- pais. The fall of snow previous to that time was on the 3d of March, 1834, it o il Cal. glace fru.. 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_—————— vis of Detroit is at the - F. Prisk is a guest at of San Jose is a guest of Denver is staying Look out for 81 4th (nr. grocery), best eve- glasses, specs, 10c to 40c. Note No. §L * We keep a man in our store to stamp your name in gold letters free of charge on all our fine leather goods. 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