The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1898, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until | ©9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlllster street. open until 9730l o'clock. 65 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o%lock. | 1941 Mission street, cpen until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, cerner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o’'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. IS05 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS ‘“Magda.” nstrel Jubllee. r—A Midnight Bell.” e Yellow Dwarf." The White Squadron.” udeville. omance of Coon Hollow." rilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. | itan Hall-Rosenthal Piano Recital, Tuesday even- | rnia e T AUCTION SALES, Butterflield—This Day (Friday), at 2 o'clock, street, corner Tehama. kW Jighth T. C. WALKER EXPLOSION. | T3IROM the report made by Captains Bulger and I Bolles, United States Inspectors of Steam Ves- sels, it appears the explosion of the boiler of the T. C. Walker was not due to accident which could not have been foreseen and avoided, but to a culpable ligence whose inevitable result could have been nothing else than what happened. 1dings of the report are that the boiler-room ar from the engine-room it was not possible for the single engineer to give proper attention to out neglecting his duty to the other. He could not be in two places at once. It is to be re- gretted the inspectors did not notice that fact before | he accident happened, but there is comfort in the | 1t they have learned the lesson at last and state | ir report, “We will issue an order to the owners | of steamers where like conditions obtain to place two licensed engineers on watch.” | The lack of a sufficient number of engineers to at- | tend to both the engines and the boilers was not, how- | ever, the only negligence on the ill-fated steamer. The | inspectors found that the tubes in some of the boilers | showed evidences of having been overheated and the fusible plug was about melted out. Moreover, it ap- | pears that an iron plug was used in place of the fusible | plug, and no report of the fact was made to the in- spectors by any of the officers of the vessel. On this showing the report says: “It is evident to | us that in many cases the licensed officers of steam | vessels fail to report occurrences on board which it | is their duty to make known to the Inspectors of am Vessels, for fear of dismissal from employment, that this fear likewise causes them to withhold things known to them concerning the steaniers upon | which they are employed when testifying in investiga- | tions held by this board.” 5 While declaring “we are unable to attach the | e of this explosion to the engineer in charge at | other licensed officer of the | steamer,” the inspectors nevertheless suspend the li- | ense of the chief engineer for three months for using | an iron plug instead of a fusible plug, and the licenses | of the engineer in charge and.of the assistant en- gincer are suspended for two months for neglecting‘l to rveport the fact. The findings are not severe, but they should serve | 25 a warning to river boat owners. - Cases of acci- | dents caused by similar acts of negligence or careless- | ness may not be so lightly treated hereafter. THE BILLBOARD NUISANCE. THE one with bl the time or to any HE action of the Supervisors-in referring the Tu(lm:mce regulating the height of billboards and imposing a license ttipon them back to a| committee, in order that a local firm of bill posters | may make an ‘“‘argument” upon the question, is -a virtual transfer of the subject to the new Supervisars. | The present board holds but two more meetings— Saturday and Monday: Both days will -be" devoted | to the obsequies of the members and no attention will | be given to practical legislation. % - It is in order, therefore, to call the attention of the new Supervisors to this subject. These gentlemen will find the ordinance of the present board before their mmittee and ready for their hand. All they need to do will be to listen to the “argument” of the bill posters, report the ordinance favorably and pass it. | Mayor Phelan undoubtedly will sign any reasonable ctment. But his action need not bother the new Supervisors. It will be time enough to present facts fcr his consideration when the ordinance gets into his h e There are two things which public expediency, the | common weal and common sense demand shall- be | done with the billboard businiess in' San Francisco. The locality and height of the signs should be regu- lated by law. The duty of enforcing this regulation shauld not be left to the bill posters themselves. The | Department ought to.be empowered to see-that - lives of pedestrians are not endangered by -tower- ing billbcards. The firemen are the only law en- 1jnhrc:.nen make no attempt to com- nce to the ordinances of the Supervisors, | Tt the firemen, who look after their own as well as | other lives, are constantly enforcing the fire laws. y, the billboards should be made to pay a This is no more than fair. forcers we | e pel obe cnse. 1 nothing into’the treasury, notwithstanding it is a nuisance of the most yifulent character. The new Toard of Supervisors cannot- devote its attention to | a miore iniportant question than this, and in legislat- ing it will have practically the unanimous support of the people. Outside the ranks of the bill posters them- selves nobody desires the maintenance of high bill- boards, which pay nothing toward the support of the government, while drawing heavily from the busi ness interests of the city. Perhaps the estate left by Columbus Waterhouse = | ...DECEMBER 30, 1808 | | lives gave but small occasion for the | Dark Continent. | his trials, | ish and fade away. - Bill-sticking now | would have been expressed by different figures if he had not chosen Dan Burns to manage his mine. J CELEBRATE OUR SEMI-CENTENNIAL. September 9, 1850. one must reflect upon the conditions under which it began. For a hundred years there had been here and there on this soil a dreamy.civilization. It had slept and enjoyed its reveries in unknown contact with the wonderful natural resources, now partly known and partly developed. From clustering around the early missions it had secured here and there a foothold in our grassy valleys, where the lords of the great grants lived as the Highland chiefs lived, in the midst of their clans. Flocks and herds roamed at will in the valleys, cropping their forage, sharing it with the deer, elk and antelope, and sharing with them also the risks from mountain lions and their predatory partners. Beyond the ecclesiastical authority, seated in the missions, there was no conspicuous attempt to found institutions, and, in justice to those pioneers of civilization, it must be admitted that their simple exercise of governmental authority. California was but little known to the outside world. Guarded by its moun- tain wall on ‘the east and by the wide stretching deserts of water on the west, its topography, physical | geography. its seasons and its soil and sky were the subject of interesting speculation, as the vast reaches of Africa are now, but there was less actual knowl- edge about them than the world of to-day has of the Fremont came as an explorer, and though this generation cannot realize it, his own time recognized in him all that civilization sees now the marvels which he first brought to the world’s attention, appealed to the im- agination and inspired romance. It was the. first achievement to the fancy and rouse the spirit of adventure in the New World since the expe- ditions of Pizarro and Cortez. excite the vision of wealth. The pastoral civilization of the country was swept from the valleys by the besom of a crusade before which crumbled all that had been. When the admission -of California was put among the compromises of 1830 in Mr. Clay's omnibus bill this State was introduced upon the theater of national politics. Though it was yielding gold, the knowledge of its more permanent resources was so meager that many things in the debates on Clay's measure seem remarkable now. Webster's speech will always stand as a monument to his genius. The ultra Southern sentiment resisted the admission of California as a free State because it would destroy the sectional bal- ance. Free and slave States had entered the Union in pairs; Vermont and Kentucky in 1791-92; Tennes- see and Ohio 1796-1802; Louisiana and Indiana 1812-16; Mississippi and Illinois- 1817-i8; Alabama and Maine 1819-20; .then came -the:bréak in this order and the first compromise: . Missouri and Arkansas came in 1820-36, and.the Missouri com- promise line of 36 degrees 30 - minutes was drawn, south of which all should be slave and north all should be free. Between 1820 and 1846 four slave States came in and only one free: In the next two years camie ‘two free States, and then California:knocked with the line-of 36 degrees-30.min- utes dividing herinto two nearly équal parts. Begin- ning at about Cypress Point, on Monterey Bay, that line crossed the San Joaquin Valley between Fresno and Visalia, crossed Mount Whitney and cut off the northernmost sands of Death Vailey. If those who stood by the compromise of 1820 had.-prevailed; clav- ery and freedom would have metat that line. The situation was® portentous, and the solution came in the speech of Webster: Turfning to the Sen- ators of the slave States, he told them they would lose nothing. Slavery was an incident of physical conditions. It had receded from New England and the Middle States because in their climate it was un- profitable, and, like every system of labor, the essence of-its being was in its profit. ‘Then, turning to Cali- fornia, he said it was, in-its physical geography and its topography, Asiatic. It differed in these respects from the rest of the continent. Its products would be found peculiar to itself, different from those of the rest of our domain. - Chattel slavery had never flour- ished in Asia for physical reasons, and, as Congress could not repeal .nor compromise 2 natural law, slav- ery, if founded in this Asiatic atmosphere,. would per- Looking backward: through ‘the events and across the development of twa score years and eight; one stands as enchanted in the presence of Webster, struck withi the univetsality of his knowledge and- the prophecy that was in his analysis. The source of his information has been a mystery to students. -But it is known that he gained it from a man-who was by na- ture an empire builder and the keenest observer of nature and her resources-this coast and country have known. Dr. Gwin was one of our first Senators, He was in Washington from his election in 1849 to the admission of the State in 1850. Born a slaveholder, a | participant in the exciting history of Jackson’s ‘ad- ministrations, he pioneered Lere and put his hand to the foundations of California. From him Webster had the accurate description of the physical condi- tions of California from .which-his genius developed that generalization which has been proved in every detail. So, impinged upon history; this land merged from its past into statehood. Every step of the way is written in romance and every advance is bowered in beauty. and spread with abundance. ; When this became the first Pacific- State it stood alone. lowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas were the frontier. We were the isolated star on the flag. Now out of the vast region held by wild tribes, fortified by mountain and desert, which lay in splendid solitude between us and our sisters of the Union, and north to the confines, ten :States have been erected. We are alone no more, The subject expands as we con- template it. How shall all of its suggestions find em- phasis in the ‘golden wedding anniversary of our State? Let California invite her ten juniors here to an exposition of her developments. midwinter fair. Let us celebrate in 1900 with a mid- summer exposition our semi-centennial as a State of this Union. Let us rebuild in Golden Gate Park the first mission consecrated on this soil and in architec- ure, productions and institutional progress illustrate cach step we have taken in fifty years. The world's eye is turned again to the Pacific Coast and the world’s hand reaches across all latitude and longitude to grasp the newly found treasures of our north. In such a semi-centennial exposition all lands will find interest. The clemency of our summer climate, our cooling trade winds, our capacious cornucopia, filled with our rare products, and our lintels bright with | blooming garlands, will invite the world to enter a fairy land and rest with us in the midst of beauties and blandishments that the vale of Cashmere cannot rival, Kuown as New Albion, in the far past mapped uiflui.nipg in jail ALIFORNIA was admitted into the Union In 1900 she will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her statehood. How | shall it be done? To appreciate the achievements of that half century in} Livingstone, Speke and Stanley. The simple story of his passing of parched deserts and scaling | of lofty mountains; his nights in the somber forest on guard against wild beasts and wilder men; his descent { upon. the plains, all Followed closely by { the discovery of gold, the world's imagination, fired | by the adventures of the Pathfinder, was inflamed by We have had a' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1898. the islands of California, fate has changed our flags and sovereignty and led on to a destiny up to the full measure of our natural endowment. Let us exploit it all and justify our pride in our inheritance. THE END OF POPULISM. Y the open letter of Thomas V. Cator, published B in The Call of yesterday, public attention is directed again to the increasing evidences of the decline of Populism. In all parts of the Union the defections from the party are numerous, and long be- fore the next Presidential election is held the organ- ization will have gone the way of Coxey’s army. The reasons for the disappearance of the party are not hard to seek. It was made up of three classes of citizens. First, those of socialistic tendencies who desire to attempt to equalize human conditions and make all men virtuous and prosperous by the enact- ment of certain laws which they regard as panaceas for all the ills of society; sec- ond, those who, by reason of the hard times and industrial depression, had been rendered so discontented with existing conditions they were willing to accept any sort of change simply for the sake of change; third, those who had become indig- nant at the boss rule and machine methods of the two old parties and hoped to attain political reform through the new organization. The capture of Democracy by the Bryanites on the Chicago platform drew the great mass of the socialistic element of the country to that party, and to that extent weakened the Populist organization by taking from it its most aggressive element. The restoration of prosperity under the McKinley ad- ministration by the re-establishment of the protec- tive system and the maintenance of the gold standard caused thousands who had voted with the Populists in former elections to return to the Republican party, and finally the capture of the Populist organization by the Democratic bosses completed the ruin of the movement by driving from it all who had hoped to see it conducted on lines of honesty and indepen- dence. It is hardly likely the factors that made Populism so strong during the last eight years will ever come together again. The tie that bound them in the past was never a strong one, nor was their union based upon any fundamental principle of political action. That much was shown by the fact that in the North- ern States the party acted with Democrats against | Republicans, while in the South it acted with Repub- | licans against Democrats. It had no convictions on questions of tariff or sound money, and was animated in each State mainly by a desire to defeat the domi- nant party in that State. In his letter Mr. Cator pointed out many reasons why earnest Populists who have been sincerely seek- ing the welfare of the people should return to the Re- publican party and hereafter act with it. The coun- sel will doubtless be accepted by all former Populists of that class. Infact the overwhelming vote by which Maguire was defeated is an evidence that the more conservative members of the party have already .be- come -disgusted with fusion and Bryanism and are ready to work hereafter in the ranks of the great party of prosperity and constructive statesmanship. The country is to be congratulated on the decline of this érganization, which at one time threatened to seriously disturb the politics of the nation. Its rise was caused by hard times and discontent, and its fall is the surest sign of the return of-prosperity and po- litical common sense among. the people. - M taken of the Philippines there. has been occa- sion to use the homely figure portraying the position of the Government as similar to that of the man who had the bear by the tail. He wanted to let g0, but-there were manifest difficulties in the way. Every day the fact becomes more strongly impres- sive that to hold the islands will be a continual an- neyance and expense of men and money. It is true the Spanish have been subdued, but the natives have not, and they show scant incliriation to bow to the authority. of the conquerors of Spain. So far has the administration been committed that it is bound as a tribute to its own pride not to submit to the semi- savages. It may be obliged to defeat them, and just how long and disastrous this will be is a matter the ‘future holds secret. . The present situation calls into prominence that to Americans the approved style of government is by consent of the governed. The implied sentiment is not that this consent is to be won at the point of the bayonet. Once thoroughly licked, the inhabitants of the Philippines, in order to avoid a further visita- tion, might consent to extend fealty to the stars and stripes, but it would not be a glad and loyal fealty. It would .have to be kept in working order by the | presence of troops, backed by warships in the harbor. Thus it is that Uncle Sam has a large bear by the tail. If he could with dignity loose his grip he would be glad to do so. But he can’t, and the laugh is on Uncle. U.NCLE SAMUEL’S BEAR: ORE than once since practical possession was Judge Belcher says that if he had his way the nine notorious School Directors would be put in a cage and dumped into the bay. Judge Belcher is a jurist of discernment, and it is to be regretted that he lacks power to pass and enforce such a sentence as he sug- gests. ; Y To restrain such a brazen lot of rascals as the ma- jority of the School Directors requires something more than a court injunction. Why not place them within the hampering environment of San Quentin, an institution provided for people of their stamp? ) Perhaps the Czar is trying to borrow that $150,000,- 000 to strengthen his army only in order that he may be able to dictate the terms of the universal peace for which his heart is yearning. Either this, or the Czar is a royal josher. According to the Examiner, the Assistant Secretary of War does not have any original opinion as to the situation. If he wants to say anything he corrals a Hearst editorial, marks it, “Them’s my sentiments,” and turns it loose. —_—— The ‘Supervisors might amend their signboard re- strictions so as to tax the boards reaching to a height of one thousand feet or over. This would salve their consciences and make the proprietors of the nuisances fe:1 good. When the lawyers in the Botkin case are appealing to the jury for justice, an impertinent, irrelevant and immaterial question will arise as to whether it is really justice that they want. There is a footpad at Santa Rosa whom the citizens desire to hang. To hope they may catch him before they have had time for a sober second thought is a natural impuise. E The effort to secure the release of Mrs. Brandes for some reason fails to excite public sympathy, although it is known that the woman positively objects to re- Since the publication of my article (Shall We Annex the Philippines?) in The Call of December 19, I have been burdened with inquiries as to what we shall do with the Philippines. That is, if we do not keep them, how shall we get rid of them? It does not seem to occur to most people to ask or try to answer the somewhat Celtic inquiry, but the more difficult one, what shall we do with them if we do keep them? It really seems to me that while but a few weeks ago the overwhelmingly pre- vailing sentiment was to keep the Is- lands because they were a good thing to have and to keep, that very many, perhaps a- majority, have come to see the matter differently upon reflection and would honestly like to be well rid of our responsibilities as to these fs- lands and their inhabitants, but have now assumed the rather difficult and dogmatic position that we have them and are morally and legally responsi- ble for their future and government and can discharge this obligation only by annexation in one form or another. I do not assume that I am asked this question because it is supposed I have the ability to answer it, but as the most available way to answer the ob- jections urged to annexation in any form—to answer a question intelli- gently—we must first consider how it originated and next consider whether it is predicated on fact or falsehood. Ever since Dewey sailed into the har- bor of Manila and sunk the Spanish fleet it has been industriously heralded and proclaimed that we were the real possessors and rulers of all the Philip- - FRANK H. SHORT pines and the inhabitants thereof, while, In fact, we then had only one harbor with no. land or military pos- session of even one island or city and have advanced little beyond this even now, and doubtless thousands of the aforesaid .Inhabitants do not know to this day that we are in possession of Manila or that there is such a country as these United States of which we as- sume they are ‘“truly loyal” citizens or. inhabitants. The heroic performance of Dewey and his brave men was sole- ly a war measure to destroy a fleet that if left at large would menace and possibly destroy our Pacific commerce and Pacific Coast cities. If it could be destroyed it was indispensable in the prosecution of the war to destroy it at once. It was therefore destroyed and with a celerity and dispatch calculated to add imperishable luster to American naval annals. Immediately thereafter it was proclaimed by the press, the pul- pit and the campaign orator that American valor had added many and populous islands to our dominions, and that we were advance agents of lib- erty and prosperity to bring to these freedom of conscience and were but an instrument in the hands of Divine Providence to accomplish these and other miraculous results. ‘We might remark in passing that the most unreliable specimen of the uncer- tain human race is the unlicensed pur- veyor of advance information’ of the wise provid-nce and secret purposes of Almighty God. The fact is and we state it confidently that there is not and never was the slightest reason or au- thority for any cf these claims or as- sertions. We had a right until peace decreed otherwise to stay as long as we wanted to and sail away whenever we chose. We respectfully challenge history for a single example and inter- national law for a single precedent to sustain such a contention; that by the conditions existing we were under any such responsibility or obligation or possessed any such assumed right to rule these islands or these people ex- cept the assumedright of the despotand the arbitration of the sword. Accord- ing to the code of international law es- tablished among those nations that for hundreds of years have assumed the right to rule any people they could conquer we could at will if we could dispossess the ruler and subject the subject, rule them if we chose, but that we were obligated to, whether consist- ent with our constitution or best for our own people or not, is without a shadow of force or precedent. According to our announced theories of government Spain ruling these people by force and without their consent was doing so wrongfully, vet by destroying that power and Wrong we assume, not only the right, but adding hypocrisy to the power and desire assume the duty and obligation to rule these people by force if need be. They have not only not ac- tually or techmically or in any way asked us to rule, protect or enlighten them, but a large majority of them have undoubtedly neither the freedom, information,intelligence norunderstand- ing to do so, and those that have the intelligence are protesting against an- nexation and demanding independence. 1f they had the freedom, intelligence and opportunity to and did ask us to do these things, then and not until then we would have the right to assume the privilege and duty, but at the same time the undoubted right to refuse if we did not consider it agreeable, profit- able or beneficial for our own people so to do. It is essential to national existence that every nation shall pur- sue a course of enlightened selfishness. The first and controlling aim and al- most exclusive purpose of each gov- ernment is the preservation, protection, advancement and well being of its own subjects or citizens. It is essential to national existence that such should be the conduct of each nation and it is so expected and any contrary assump- tion is not only unwise but usually hypocritical. As an illustration, but not as an example, when Emperor Wil- liam of Germany, by the generalship of Von Moltke and the iron hand of Bis- marck, camped in the capital of France and held the French people in his power, he assumed no obligations and pretended none as to the future govern- ment of France or the future wellbeing of the French people. He dictated his terms, toock what he wanted for his people and left the rest to the empire, the republic or the commune of France. This pretense of obligation, this pre- tense of unselfish desire to rule, with- out their will or consent, and to en- lighten at our expense as a nation, if need be, a lot of equatorial Malays, is so unmanly, so false and unAmerican America has hitherto stood among oppressed people freedom of thought, WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE PHILIPPINES? the nations of the world that we ought to be ashamed of it and ought either to come out and say we want them be- cause we need them in our business or we do not want them because they would be injurious to us. The American people can assume an obligation only as ordained by law and the constitution. The army and the navy, the executive and the judiciary, all acting, cannot annex any country or people or obligate us to annex them. It is only by treaty, ratified by two- thirds of the Senate or a majority of both houses of Congress, that such can be done or such real obligation in- curred. Even if thé treaty were rati- fied we would then only be substituted to Spain’s rights, which is the right to forcibly rule a people without their consent and which is foreign to our theories of government. To-day what- ever form of government exists in the Philippines, other than Spanish or American military rule, is insurgent, avowedly seeking to establish some form of independent government. If the treaty be ratified it can only be prevented rom working incalculable injury to this people by allowing them to do what they obviously want to-do— set up a government of their own. We are told that it will not be stable and cannot defend itself—a most excellent argument against.mixing it with our own. Suppose it is not stable, the Central American republics so-called here in our own hemisphere hav revolution about every ninety days and seem to enjoy it. In any event if the treaty shall be ratified we can then co- operate as expeditiously and honestly as possible in assisting these people to set up as respectable and stable a form of government as they are capable of and then wash our hands of the whole uncongenial and unAmerican business and return to our own jurisdiction. The person who advocates that these people are incapable of self-govern- ment, present or future, and therefore we cannot humanely leave them to their own resources and follies and at the same time advocates bringing them in as prospective American citizens, has certainly an impossible position to de- fend. In the first place the whole pres- ent and past argument as to moral, legal or other responsibility is strained and false, -but ‘if the responsibility be admitted, for the sake of the argument, or shall be in a greater or less degree assumed in the future, nevertheless this irresistible conclusion results: If we cannot invite them into the family of States as citizens, and there Is certainly no representative or general sentiment of the American mind that we can or should; if we cannot with respect to our | principles of government or with re- gard to our well-being colonize them and rule them as subjects (and they must be one or the other, citizens, present or prospective, or subjects) and in our former article we discussed the matter at sufficient length, then there is and can be but one conclusion: Sentiment cannot govern, not such a sentiment at least; it could not govern if it were well founded and much less when it is unfounded and false and hypocritical. The islands must be dis- posed of, must be got rid of, freely and voluntarily, and for self-govern- ment would best suit the American mind, but in any event get rid of them. | The protection, the well-being, the lib- erties of this people, the progress, the advancement of this one grand and representative government of democ- racy must not, and in God's providence we hope will not, be sacrificed in be- half of the pretended interests of a non- consenting, unhomogeneous and alien race. ‘We entered this war disclaiming all greed, all desire for gain, acquisition or annexation. We may yet quit with honor and credit, glory even and re- nown, but equally we may stand con- victed as an Ananias in the beginning and an Uriah Heep among nations at the end. Tt is easy to tell what to do with the Philippines before we actually have them in comparison to being able to tell what to do with them when once “we have the elephant on our hand I have no great hope that the sug- gestions here made or any suggestions will satisfy those who have set their hearts on annexing the Philippines.. “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still,” and some of our fellow citizens have strongly set their hearts on decorating our plain demo- cratic apparel with a goodly quantity of Oriental jewelry. Therefore the true policy of those opposed to annexa- tion on principle is to show the disad- vantages and injurious effects to this country and those now favoring annex- ation if once convinced it is wrong and injurious to us will answer the gques- tion how not to do it themselves. Hav- ing destroyed thé power that governed or misgoverned the Philippines, we may assume if we choose to give them self-government and assist them in that direction, or in providing some other kind of government less objectionable than that we have taken from them. But that we must hold them as colo- nies or territories and prospective states is only suggested by the wish fathering the thought. If in necessary self-defense an American citizen had killed the brutal husband of one of those Malay ladies and taken away her support, such as it was, he might feel, if unusually high ‘minded, obligated to make some recompense or provide some sustenance for her for a reasonable time; but unless in need of servants or in the habit of keeping them, would hardly feel moridlly obligated to make her his handmaiden for the rest of her | natural life, and much less to marry the widow and make her one of his family. It is rather a nice and deli- cate question this mixing of races. As a self-governed and self-governing race ‘we have no right to colonies or to sub- ject this people to.our domination; as a self-governing, self-respecting race we have no right to brin~ into our fam- ily and the sisterhood of States any people not pessessed of the qualities or characteristics of self-government en- titling them to such a position, present or prospective. y Remove your eyes from the Orient, my countrvmen, and by the light of ex~ perience study these United States and this people, and then I firmly believe we can all agree that the answer to the question, What shall we do with the’| Philippines? can never be, Annex them as colonies, much less as prospective states. FRANK H. SHORT. JUDGE BELCHER ON HIS DECISION Editors The Call—Gentlemen: Your paper this morning seems to impute to me an inadequate discharge of public duty in the case of Lane vs. the Board of Education, in that the injunction was not made sufficiently broad. Of course The Call does not wish to do me an injustice, and of course it is an in- justice to me that the public should be given to understand that I have not performed my duty. It only needs to be stated to one familiar with the law and the practice that a suitor in the courts can have no more than he sues for—that the meas- ure of relief granted him cannot ex- ceed what he prays for. If it were otherwise actions in the courts would not be necessary, but the courts would proceed of their own motion to do jus- tice as they saw it. We know that the courts have no such power. Their or- ders and proceedings are and must al- ways be within the lines of the plead- ings of the parties. In the school di- rectors’ case certain specified relief was prayed and all of the relief prayed for ‘was granted. EDWARD A. BELCHER. San Francisco, Dec. 29, 1898 - THE SON OF HiS FATHER LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25, 1898. Editor Call: Will you kindly allow me to say only a few words through There seems to be a great objection all whose names have been mentioned as probable candidates for United States Senator. The Times of this city has come out for U. 8. Grant of San Diego, and uses up a column and a half trying to frame an apology to its read- ers for so doing. It says anybody to beat Burns, and Grant is the son of his father. If Grant has any brains, how flattered he must feel over such an apology to the people from a paper for hoisting his name. But, really, I hard- ly think Grant will be considered. He is a man of no special ability, no promi- nence (only as the son of his father); he has never done a thing, said a word, or in any manner whatsoever performed an act that entitles him to even be considered. For God’'s -ake, | has the State no material in the Re- publican party for United States Sena- tor? J. H MOREHOUSE JR. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Addis Gallagher of Portland is at the Palace. J. C. Steele of Trinity Center is at the Grand. | F. L. Orcutt of Sacramento is at the | Palace. | J. M. Fulweiler arrived at the Lick v sterday. E. D. McCabe of Sacramento 1s a guest at the Lick. B. F. Wright of Del Monte is registered at the Lick. W. G. Drown, a miner from Angels, is at the Lick. F. B. Glenn of San Jacinto is a guest at the Lick. . W. H. Matson Jr. of Fresno is at the Occidental. C. K. Moore of Belmont is a guest at the Occidental. W. C. Conroy, Sherift of Placer County, is at the Grand. Charles Aull, warden of Folsom Prison, is at the Grand. A. T. Eagar of Virginia City is regis- tered at the Palace. H. F. Brown of Los Angeles arrived at the Ocidental yesterday. An English | & gentleman, who & THEY KILL g is traveling for ® THE WOUNDED & pleasure and who & & 18 a guest at one % - DERVISH. Z o %y hotels In =3 % this city, tells of Lo ¥osofoyo¥> some interesting experiences he had when an officer in the English army in Egypt. It was In con- nection with the fanatic bravery of the Dervishes, who prefer to die on the fleld of battle rather than fall into the hands of the British and be cared for by their surgeons, that the Englishman told the following story: “There is no kinder man in the British army than the surgeon, and he is always anxious to attend all woanded men. He makes no exceptions, and is just as eager to tend the wounded Dervish whenever one is brought in, but no wounded Der- vish is ever brought in to receive his care. It is as much as one's life is worth to go near a wounded Dervish. After they have been wounded they lie on the ground glaring about them like wild ani- mals. Approach one and out will come his curved sword. He will feign death until you are within reach, when he will glve you a vicious sweep, and if the blow reaches you it is more than probable that you are mained for life if not killed. The problem of dealing with the wounded is a difficult one. In 1855 after a batfjs the English soldiers, commanded by th; officers, used to go out and kill wounded Dervishes. One soldier wolfd prod the body between the shoulders with a bayonet. If there was no move- ment the party went on; if the Dervish proved to be alive another private in- stantly blew out his brains.” Colonel S. S. Babbitt, U. S. A.,s regis- tered at the Occidental. Dr. G. W. Robinson of Los Angeles is a guest at the California. Lee J. Pitner of Placerville is among those at the Califor: a. J. C. Needham of Modesto, Congress- man-elect, is at the Lick. George B. Rider, a prominent merchant of Sacramento, is at the Grand. C. M. Hartley, a-fruit man from Vaca- ville, is a guest at the Grand. E. McLaughlin, a well-known capitalist of San Jose, is a guest at the Occidental. B. F. Holmes and W. B. Mann were among the arrivals at the Palace yester- day. J. M. Dickson of Stockton and John Fairweather of Reedley are at the Cali- fornia. T. M. Schumacher, vice president of the Continental Fruit Express, arrived at the Palace last night. He was at one time a resident of this clity, being the general agent of the freight department of the Southern Pacific. —————————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—William Cowles of San Francisco is at the Waldorf-As- toria. E. Z. Griffiths of San Francisco is at the Windsor. Henry H. Scott of San Francisco is at the Girard. H. P. Seet of Los Angeles is at the Imperial. S. M. Rosenbaum and family of San Francisco are at the Savoy. —_————— INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION—S., City. The first French international ex- position in Paris was opened May 17, 1555, WORDS OF A SONG—J. H., City. This department has not the space to repro- duce the words of songs. You can, throu(fh any music store, obtain the song you desire. MARRIAGE AT SEA—A. S, City. It has been legally ‘decided that a marriage on the high sea by one not designated as | having the power to solemnize a marriaze is not valid; but as.yet there has not besn a decision as to marriage solemnized on the high seas by one who on land has the legal right to solemnize a marriage. ———————— Our famous broken candy, 3% lbe., In handsome Jpnese. bskts, 50c. Townsend's.* sl S Soft baby cream, 15¢ 1b. Townscnd's.* ———— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c Ib., in fire etched boxes or Japanese bas- kets. - 627 Market st., Palace Hotcl bldg.* —————— business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 310 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_————— Mr. J.—What would you susgest, doc- tor, for insomnia? 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