The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1899, Page 6

SUNDAY... JOH N D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. R e L el Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 291 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1576 . 15 _CENTS PER WEEK jes, & cents. ing Postage: DELIVERED BY CARRIE Single Cc Terms by M DAILY CALL (including Su DAILY CALL (including DAILY CALL (including DAILY CALL—By Single M BUNDAY CALL One Year... KLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. BTk ...908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE.. NEW YORK OFFICE.. _ Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE ‘Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. v CHICAGO OFFICE..... ..........Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:3C o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock.” 106 Eleventh strect, open until ‘9 o'clock. 1805 Polk, street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane pen until 9 o'clock. ra House Company, Monday even- « and Z0o—Planka, the *‘Lady of Lion Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Park Steeplechase. a—''Dewey the Hero of Manila,” Monday evening, man-Clay Hail an-Clay Hall ng to-day. morrow Umbsen & Co. at i Estate, at 14 M THE PRESS NOT TO BLAME. O doubt there is felt a hope that Burns may ben speaking of reactions, there e of the press has simply 1t public reaction against Burns‘ 1t his candidacy was announced That candidacy has nents and has gained It is now opposes thers. The 3 ented the 1 set in the mc acific road. sive since that time —an offense to the State and an If its success were cted upon the, party would have been if possibie, the mortal wound i it Nothing said nor omitted situation nor taken the | the same now as n the first ballot. would be ed th ¢ press has ¢ out of the poison of the Burns movement. The at Wright availed himself of a passing sensa- the House against newspapers to attach him- 1o e incident as a martyr has effected no ion nor made any one forget that Lie held the Speakership seventeen days and resigned isgrace to avoid expulsion from his seat. morals and politics of the 1t is impinged upon it are like manner, the 1 1 e be we! d retaliation in which men participated who re in exact accord with the press as to the r ade that discussion necessary. t deny that many good men have taken t ich has recently been ect. But we very v would have done much dii- the responsibilities oint of the journalist. f an unjustifiable ambition secks sting among its agencies every- on to the bottle, and, moving es of bribery, temptation and debauch- seeks. su the ruined honor of indi- the tarnished fame of the State and the de- es quite naturally a spirit not agreeable to the push and behind Mr. Burns. d party interest had been loy- considered first in the concern of these mani- 1d Bard, Barnes, Scott, Felton or some al in fitness cess over heir peer in service and their equa 1d elected, none of these far- It forward s “would have occurred. I 1 to barnacle himself to its harm and complain that those who e and denounce him are enemies of the party. ries ‘of the e those who abuse its r, who belong to it for what they can get from good it can do the State. y are those who keep its word ¢ both to the ear and the hope of the peo- who trust it for its pro belong to the latter class, and, not denying admitting them to be of temper or inten- refer to seek the public good through party - 1 surrender both in the interest of s as Burns, whose ambitipns are as un- personally unfit for the high is an riends ¢ es. cy are laces they s e e e After every paper in the United States had printed definite information that ‘Admiral Dewey would. not e for the Presidency, quoting xaminer takes the trouble to g new. It even ative clear to Manila Ti this representative i James Creel: the information may be considered in- e its general acceptance heretofore as It is believed that rather than teil the trutl nan would reirain’ from sending a word. sent to a candi own words, the some! an- it 'sent a repres to find out. ia ibility that General Eagan will get ng his enforced idieness, in which case e the aspect of punishment. body who works fora salary could recon- i to the discontinuance of the work and the continuance of the salary. San Francisco is not proud of its bunko men, but it has to recognize the fact that it has about as crafty a lot ever cscaped going to jail. The attention of Iy directed to them. the police is respec Dibble and johnson do not want Senators elected by popuiar vote. Possibly they fear that the people would rise and insist upon sending them to Wash- ingtor a'reaction against the press which | ssion in the press THE INTERESTS OF REPUBLICANISM. HE few manipulators and selfish farmers of the opportunities of Republican power are trying to secure their own ends, to -the destruction of party primacy, by declaring that The Call, under ad- verse party management, reflects the aspirations of the minority in this State and seeks to advance its interests by fighting against Burns. This statement should appeal to no man of con- science and sense, and to no Republican who con- siders at once the principles and the mission of the party. It is a statement which carries with it the necessary admission that Daniel M. Burns is the most meritorious and deserving Republican in this State, and that he is so much thé party that to op- pose him is to oppose the party itself. Now, in all candor, we ask any one who stands for this statement to answer what would haye been the result if this preposterous claim had been made be- announced Senator? the Republican State Convention had Burns as the party’s sole candidate for What would have happened if the candidates, from Governor down, who did such useful work on the stump, had announced in every meeting that Mr. Burns was to go to the Senate as the first and high- est fruit of Republican victory? What would have happened if the Democratic manager of Republican politics for the Southern Pacific had proclaimed be- fore clection that Mr. Burns was the Republican can- didate of that corporation for the Senatorship? We ask any thoughtful Republican, who knows why he is a Republican, to appear before himself in | the court of his own conscience and ask which shas | stood for the highest, best and most permanent in- terests of his party, the Southern Pacific road in acking Burns or The Call in opposing him. There is not one such Republican in California who does of Burns not know in his heart that the success means the defeat of the party. We have seen much bad-tempered criticism of The Call, and some antagonisms have drisen which we will long regret, but, brought to the test of party loyalty, measured by the things which make for im- mediate and future Republican domination in this Republican who looks to a future indorsement of the ction. current party | The Call stands in a position peculiarly marked by | unselfishness and by a desire for continued Repub- | lican primacy, for it has no candidate for the Senate, it represents no personal greeds, grudges nor am- s it would | | elect stand all, | for the party which received such a generous mea- | sure of public confidence last November, and in all | bitions, and stands in good company, to in no companionship at irness and decency should deserve that trust and | | merit its repetifion by having aspirations above the gutter, candidates outside the 1ogues’ gallery, and purposes higher than the ambitions of the vulgar and ind; ent. | Chis is a position which we prefer to hold, sub- ting our course to the calm judgment of those to | [ whom politics spoils. The truffle-hunting pigs who want to swallow what | they can root out of party victory have sent abroad the charge that The Call is intriguing to secure the retirn of Stephen M. White to the Senate. Against | this falschood we set the truth that it is our desire to have the Republican party prove that it has in its a man to succeed that Senator who will be his ranks peer, that it may not be said that in electing a suc- | cessor to him California Republicanism has only per- | petuated the vacancy leit by his retirement. If there a Republican who deserves public spect in this State who is in discord and disagree- re- ment with our position he has not yet been heard @ NEW DEPARTURE IN POLITICS. Democracy and the collapse of Populism may [ Jeave the Republican party without a rival in 100 and thus deprive the country of its accustomed heated Presidential campaign, some enterprising citi- | zens of Washington have set about the task of or- | ganizing a new party to overthrow the administration | and reform the country. | The movers in the new undertaking propose to base their organization upon a platform with but a single plank. That plank, ‘o\\'e\'er. is of the kind ! known as a jim dandy. It 15-about as wide as the desire for office and as thick as a log. It is clearly strong enough to support as many people as can get cn it with both feet, and the calculations are that enough shall get on it to elect a President by carry- | EARFUL, perhaps, 'that the demoralization of ing every State in the Union. | This single, all-comprehending, high-cockolorum | plank declares: “We hold #hat the only free and just | | government is that in which the lawmaking bodies | are composed of direct representatives from such in- | dustries or occupations as have a majority of votes | in the Congressional and Legislative districts defined | by our constitutions and the laws of our States. With {an abiding faith in the truth and justice of our be- lief, we appeal to every farmer in the United States | to join hands with us in effecting our purpose, which | is the nomination and election of farmers as members | of Congress and farmers as members of our Legis- | | latures.” For simplicity of character and directness of ex- pression that platform is unsurpassed.in the annals of our politi It ignores all questions of govern- | mental policy, all consideration of political measures, and goes straight to the main point—who shall hold the offices. We declare, say the framers of the plat- form, that.the farmers should be the lawmakers and draw the salaries and divide the patronage. What maore would you have? Ii the new movement do not attain a wide sweep and swing it will be only because this: country is tired of politics and would not vote for the ten com- mandments if accompanied by a new agitation. The platform gets rid of the tariff, the silver question, the | war problems and ail other issues thiat perplex the brain. The sole defect in it is that it also gets rid of all the existing politicians, and that defect is‘one that | a good many people will account a virtue. | ——— The latest attempt to overthrow the French Gov- ernment had in it many of the elements of'a practical joke, including the discomfiture of the jokers: » 1i American authorities succeed in :scterminating yellow fever in Cuba the people, of that.island ought te be so grateful as to refuse independence. l i iving by the haking of car- No man who earns a -{ toons has yet been observed in quest of a new job. fore the last election? What would have happened if | | State, we as yet lack the condemnation of a singlci | in California which would hold the anti-cartoon bill represents principles rather than | | Brucker of Michigan, facetiously. UNCONSTITUTIONAL. FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY HE so-called anti-cartoon bill provides that it shall ‘be “unlawiul’ to reproduce in a news- paper the portrait of any person residing in this State without his or her consent, except such person is a public official or has been convicted of a crime. 1t also provides that it shall be “unlawful” to, draw and ‘publish a caricature of any person which re- flects upon his honor or integrity, or which (it might have been more aptly said) is calculated to lacerate his feelings. To do either one of these “unlawful” acts makes not only the man who draws the carica- ture or prints the portrait responsible, but every one connected with his establishment from the printer’s devil up. The constitution of the State of California contains an article entitled “Declaration of Rights,” by which certain privileges and immunities are guaranteed to every citizen. This “declaration” contains some privileges which the English Barons extorted irom King John at Runnymede. One of its sections de- clares: “Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being respon- sible for the abuse of that right, and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.” Perhaps the Senators and Assemblymen who voted for this anti-cartoon bill never heard of the constitu- tion of California, or, if they did, were unaware of the existence in it of this declaration. Indeed, it is charitable to believe in their ignorance.* How any in- telligent man could read ‘the sentence we have quoted and vote for the anti-cartoon bill without considering it a joke passes all comprehension. By this “declaration” an unalienable right is granted to every man in California to write and publish his sen- timents upon any subject. Yet the author of the anti- cartoon bill says it shall be “unlawful” to write and publish them unless it is done in a certain specified way, which he describes in detail. Of course a knowledge of constitutional law is not a qualification for a seat in the Assembly, but, never- theless, when a petrson having a grievance against | the press attempts to legislate for its regulation he should take pains to inject some intelligence into his | work. There is no power in the Legislature to regu- ate the privilege enjoyed by every man in this State of speaking and writing his sentiments upon any sub- ject. The Legislature may punish speakers and writers for abusing the privilege, but it cannot punish them for telling the truth nor for publishing charges against their fellow-citizens when they do it for good motives and justifiable ends. We venture to say that there is not a Justices' Court constitutional. A CASE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. INCE the object of oratory is to persuade and S convince the minds of men to such an extent that they will vote as the orator desires, any speech which is successful in winning over an audience prejudiced against the cause of the speaker b be accounted as one of genuine eloquence. | That being so, the crown for eloquence at this ses- | sion of Congress must be awarded to a new member, a certain William 'Harrison Graham, described by the veracious chronicler of the Washington Post as “the lank, hollow-eyed, bewhiskered successor to Governor Bill Stone of Pennsylvania.” Mr. Graham desired to induce the House to amend the river and harbor bill by adding to,it an appro- priation for a survey ‘of ¥oughiogheny Creek, a ctream which s tributary to the Monongahela, and | enters it somewhere in the neighborhood of Pitts- burg. - As the extent of the desired survey is only twenty miles, there is no-apparent reason why the work should not be done by the county through which it runs, and the House took that view of the question. Moreover, the temper of Speaker Reed is | known to be economical, and the committee in charge | of the bill shared his desire to shut out amendments. | It was therefore a prejudiced, adverse and hostile | audience that Mr. Graham had to address, and had it not been his maiden effort he would not have been listened to at all. | Under such circumstances true genius displays its potent power. _ The speaker said nothing about the insignificant creck for which he sought an appro- priation. He took up a subject on which he could spread the cagle. He declared the object of the bill | was to benefit Pittsburg, and then he soared: “Pittsburg can present annually to every man, woman and child in this country a glass bottle. (Laughter.) Pittsburg leaves them to decide whether it shall be filled with milk or something stronger. (Laughter.) Pittsburg makes enough of both beer and whisky to fill all the 20,000,000 glass tumblers she sends out annually, her most recent product being a $25,000,000 beer syndicate. To pro- vide for other cravings of the stomach she has a firm that sends out pickles enough to present every hu- man being on the face of the earth with one. (Laughter.) Her railroad tonnage is three times that of New York or Chicago, twice that of London and four times that of Paris. (Applause.) Includ- ing the Connelsville coke region, over 2,000,000 rail- road cars are loaded annually. “What town is that?” asked Representative “It needs no gentleman on the floor of the House,” retorted the eulogizer of Pittsburg, “to an- swer that question.” (Laughter and applause.) The orator had but five minutes in which to make his speech and sweep the House off its feet. We are told that after he had given four minutes to’ a panegyric on Pittsburg he threw in a few words for Allegheny County, and then the chairman put the vote on his amendment. A division was demanded, | and Representative Graham swung “both his long, bony arms. “Friends of-Allegheny County stand ! up,” he shouted, as though he were rallying a throng of. freemen at a ward meeting. The whole House stood up, or nearly so, for by 106 to I it was decided that Youghiogheny Creek should be surveyed. I A professional bicycle rider who has been in the business six years says he has pulled down between $80,000 and $90,000. Here is encouragement for oung men who have a leaning toward professional | life, aithough it may dampen the ardor of those who | aspire to the presidency of a college. This town wants the harse cars abolished. To be sure at every proposed improvement there is an out- cry against increased danger, but the populace has grown agile with practice, and, besides, all cars, of course, are to be equipped with fenders. S AR The gentleman who has just paid $3000 for a dog | could find 2 number of people who would rather have' | the price than the dog, this with all respect for his judgment and the dignified.pedigree of the purchase. | | While the Board of Education is saving much [»thmugh the cutting of salaries, think of the much greater amount it saved by refraining from pay- | ing any salaries at all for a period of months! | | According to a morning paper Seattle is indignant FEBRUARY 26, 1899 at General Shafter. It happens, however, that on anything pertaining to this officer the morning paper il question is not an authori~ B0 +04040 404040404 Concerning a new paper which comes under my notice I have nothing to say save-as to a single article which hap- pens to be an attack upon Ambrose Bierce. I have been led to believe that Mr. Bierce is competent to fight his own battles and ordinarily would have no impulse to defend him. So far as the assault bears upon the ability of Bierce as a critic T regard it as perfectly just. His expressed opinion of the literary product of any person Is absolutely without value. Whether he is incom- petent to judge or for mere perverse- ness chooses to be absurd is a point upon which information is difficult to obtain. But the article in question is grossly stupid in that it denies to Bierce credit for capacity to do good work, when as a fact many intelligent people here and abroad hold that he is the writer of some of the. best, the strong- est and the most striking stories ever couched in model English. Certainly these tales will be remembered long after the circumstance that Bierce ever wrote for a daily paper shall have been forgotten. Whether his Sunday letter is good or bad matters little, for in a week—as all other work of the kind— it is lost to recoliection. To formulate classics fer a daily paper would be an exaggerated method of wasting pearls. The average reader does not want clas- sics, and getting them would consider himself aggrieved. Were Bierce to write at his best he would shoot ideas so far above the heads of his following that they could not discern them with a telescopic mental eye. But my indig- nation is due to the embodying in the denunciatory screed of a brutal and malign attack directed against a man who, having been befriended and en- couraged by Bierce, presumes to ad- mire and perhaps unconsciously to imi- tate him. To this man nature has given a physical cross to bear and bravely he bears it. Yet the ambushed assail- ant taunts him with the misfortune not to be escaped, gibes at the anguish above which the sufferer has risen, and then seems to think a point has been scored. In all my experience as a reader I nmever ran across an outrage more flasrant, a covert thrust more cowardly given. As a smaller reason for protest there appear to indicate au- thorship of the unholy affront to decency the i itials “H. J.” Lest some superficial student of current journal- ism may think I am guilty I hasten to disavow the iniquity. Occasionally the duty of saying harsh things arises, and while I do not shirk it I do not hide behind initials. Such subterfuge is worse than the crime of being anony- mous, for it may cast suspicion upon the guiltless. Before I reach so de- graded a state as to devote to wanton ridicule of the aflicted such feeble habit of phrase as may be mine may I lose the power to place a word on record. « P aire Professor Paul ’osev: I —1 perfect- 1y willing to concede that you are a crank, but it is distressing to observe that you spell it with a K. . e s Dennis: Having read your contribu- tlons, I am convinced that there is about your name something singularly appropriate. 3 PR e That James Creelman should now be near the scene of activities in Manila is a genuine misfortune., Of all the newspaper correspondents who ever misled the public, I regard him as the most conscienceless and unreliable. One might read a detailed account of a battle, written by Creelman, a de- scription of the charge, the retreat and the burial of the dead, and yet not have the slightest assurance that a bat- tle had occurred. Up to the present people have had a clear idea of the progress of matters in the Philinpines. Now they are certain to be confused, for there will be Creelman reports and truthful reports, and not all are pre- pared to draw the distinction. I am sorry that some of the men who went from here to renresent local papers did not remain. Sol Sheridan and Corporal Healy for The Call, Mart Egan for the Chronicle and Douglas White for the Examiner all sent accurate an? inter- esting reports. White was handicapped by the absurd commissions given him by his paper, and a ponderous title, but he did his work well notwithstanding. Any one of thew> men was worth a dozen Creelmans, but the trouble seemed to be over and they were with- drawn. Then Creelman was forwarded, and we realize with pangs that the ac- tual trouble has just begun. Hapnoily, however, Creelman may be so busy tell- ing Otis and Aguinaldo how to conduct a war that he will not have time to cable much but a record of his own valuable emotions. . T hope there is no treason in expres- sion of the wish that the good and great Mr. Alger would perceive the beauty of retiring with his honors thick upon him and rest in a bower of the laurel with which he has been showered. , If he cannot take this view of the case— still no treason—to see him kicked out of the Cabinet would be a pleasing spectacle. Probably there was never in the family of -Presidential advisors a man more incompetent, more distaste- ful, more lacking in public eonfidence. People recognize the fact that the War Department had a vast task to per- form, and that while this was per- formed with expedition every stage of development reeked with scandal. with fayoritism and with rotten beef. The present is too late a time to be mak- ing excuses. There can be no excuses for offense so rank. Neither will the attempt to prove that the soldiers who died of his beef were guilty of false pretense, and that the generals who made complaint at seeing them die lied for the lust of lying, tend to create and perpetuate esteem for Alger. One thing, however, has been accomplished o | by the exhibit of Algerism. He has a habit of being mentioned as a ‘Presi- dential possibility every four years, and this habit has doubtless been given a permanent quietus, wherein !s to be discerned a grain of comfort. . - - * A California paper complains that Indians have entered this State from Nevada and are engaged in the slaughter of deer. Of course this action on the part of the ignorant savage is reprehensible. Any deer would rather be killed by a white man, clad in proper hunting togs and with a high- priced gun. I am reminded of the days when our good forefathers not only shot all the deer in sight, but potted the Indian as well, but of course ideals have changed since those crude times. . s e There are fools in the world, but little profit in discussing them, as being WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. - B S aaaaasasasnsasat: what they are there is no hope, of re< form for them. Among the virulent fools I would give a place ‘to Fritz Haas. He was certain that a rifle was unloaded, and to justify the faith which was in him pointed the weapon at a boy and pulled the trigger. At this writing there remains a hope that the boy may recover and a depressing as- surance that Fritz will. There should be a severe penalty for this sort of homicidal jocoseness. To term such a shooting “accidental” is folly. It is de- liberate, inexcusable, and should be punished by a long term in the peni- tentiary. The person who will in jest point a gun or any other deadly weapon at another person is not fit to be at large. He is either a criminal, an idiot or a lunatic. The decadence of Joaquin Miller is a sad instance of the going out of a great intellect. The author of some of the finest poetry ever written in America and of a virile prose, bespeaking gen- ius, he has descended to the position of a vaudeville freak, clad in uncouth rai- ment and singing a senseless ditty for the amusement of a crowd that would with equal interest gaze upon the fat lady or the ossified gentleman. He be- comes the object of contempt or of com- miseration. In earlier years he reached the climax of achievement possible to him and instead of pausing there has started down the hither side. Some friend ought to enjoin him. . ik e For some reason the plan to close the city cemeteries seems to be in abey- ance, but when the Supervisors have accomplished the routine of their du- ties I hope this subject will be taken up again and a decision reached to stop at the earliest possible moment burials within the limits of San Francisco. The reasons for do:ng this are so many and so incontrovertible as to leave no room for argument. In a city a cemetery not only impedes progress, but it is likely to poison earth, air or water, or all of these, and to preserve for the peril of the living the germs of deadly disease. Far away from the busy streets, yet within easy reach, beauti- ful cemeteries have already been pro- vided for Protestants, Catholics and Jews. They are where for an incalcu- lable number of years they cannot be a detriment and perhaps by the time they shall be found in the way the method of burial will be obsolete. T Any American citizen must be inter- ested not alone in the future of the Philippines as bearing on the welfare | of his own race but in the discussion the condition has provoked, and the widely divergent opinions of men equally conscientious. It seems to me the fuss is greater than the occasion warrants, and the fear that in either outcome the United States will go to the bow-wows is entirely without foun- dation. My respected friend, Henry E. Highton, seems possessed of a terror that the constitution is being rent into small bits. He says the constitution, like the Ten Commandments, is eter- nal as eternity itself, wherefore I am of belief -that he errs. The constitu- tion was formed under stress of cir- cumstances which have passed away, to meet the requirements of people who have long been dust. Wise and glorious as the document is, I do not see how it could at that time have been so contrived as to fill the needs of gen- erations then unborn, to deal with situ. ations of which no statesman had the remotest dream. “Is George Washing- ton a back number?” asks Mr. High- ton. That magnificent personality will ever remain, and so long as this na- tion exists, be to it a pride and an in- spiration. Solomon was a learned man, but he would be out of place to-day as president of Stanford University. The first builder to construct a locomotive understood the principle of steam, but placed on board a modern engine such as hauls a lightning express now he would have to ask the location of the throttle bar, how to applv the air brake and- the meaning of the semaphore. Despite my regard for the erudition of Mr. Highton, I am unable to see aught in the constitution forbidding us to ad- vance, directing us to be a walled-in nation or thrive upon our own fat in the manner of a hibernating bear. The oft quoted precedent set by the Ro- man republic is of no value. The ways of the Romans were not our ways; their capabilities were less, their mor- als lower. Washington never recom- mended the use of the horseless car- riage, never sent a message by wire, never scratched a match on the rear of his trousers, never tried his eyes by electric light, never lolled in a Pullman at sixty miles an hour. The majesty of the individual we may justly vener- ate, and his memory cherish, rever. ing his unselfish honor-and honesty, but while Washington is not a “back num-. ber” his ashes are not up to date. ‘When Dewey destroyed the Span- ish fleet at Manila, my impulse was to glory in the fact that the American flag would go up there and stay. Later, as the natives seemed so valiantly to object, I regarded them as patriots, and hoped this Government would find an opportunity decently to withdraw. The Filipinos have shown that part of them need killing and the rest to be gov. erned by a power capable at any time of crushing them. It will not do to af- firm that the United States undertook the task as a high and holy mission, but in greéat measure the task was pressed upon this country in such man- ner that to have shirked it would have been cowardice, and to leave it unfin. ished, the islandéers to fight among themselves until subjugated by some nation even more piggish than this, would add cruelty to cowardice. I no- tice that the same debaters who speak of “mongrel hordes” incapable of self- government speak, when the term bet- ter suits them, of the brave “‘Filipino patriots” struggling for a liberty we will net permit thém to obtain. They also afirm that with the Philippines under our control there will be nothing to prevent the natives from swarming to these shores. This tends to show that their remarks are for effdct, and to thoughtful people the effect is dif- ferent from that expected. Patriots do not plan massacre, shoot at flags of truce, make a target of the wounded. Mongrel hordes do not invade a clvil- ized country. When Filipinos get dan- gerously numerous here, Utes will pre- dominate on Broadway and Brule Sioux be running the packing houses of Chi- cago. It is weil to face facts as they are. We have paid for the islands good American blood and a trifle of $20,000,000. Perhaps the bargain was bad, but jas- tice holds us to it. Sympathy for the islanders, who would under this coun- try be given better government than they ever knew, is wasted, and even the potent, admirable constitution of the United States, the protest of its conservative citizens, can no more stay the advance of civilization, whether with Bible or with gun, than prayer ‘cam avert an avala:&che; . Occasionally it may be noticed that some philanthropist is announced to Jeliver a lecture to “young men only’ I do not belie- e in such lectures. X listener there hears anything his owr instincts of decency have not ta t him, or that he has not absorbed fron the prevelant patent medicine pamph let. Sych affairs draw, but so do un- clean cases in court. - PRI ‘When an actress is blessed with youth and beauty there is a custom of- an nouncing her marriage about once ir so often, giving her an oppertunity not only to indignantly make denial, but to state that she is wedded to her a and that the union is satisfactory. has always seemed to me that the fair of selecting a husband for hersc is one which might as well be left « an actress, particularly since if she finds the selection injudicious usage gives her the privilege of trying again, and as yet there has been no limit set. Meantime, to announce that an actress has been married to a man old enough to be her grandfather is a distinct piece of impertinence, if untrue. — THANKS FROM IOWA MOTHERS DES MOINES, Towa, Feb. 16, 1599. Editor San Francisco Call: During the time the Fifth Iowa Regiment was in camp in San Francisco reports eame to us constantly of the many Kind- nesses received from the Red Cross ard Catho Truth societies, and from all the citzens with whom they. beéame acquainted. Many little inciderts of courtesies extended and Kkindnesses shown, which went far to relieve the menciony, fare and inconvenience of camp life, were noted from time to time. Two of the companies, A and H, are mostly from our own city angd all wrote glowing accounts of how *he'Red Cross met them when tired and hun- gry and served them with dinner te- fore the journey to camp was finished and how that same society remen:bered them to the last, furnishing eazh with a - sack containing an ample lunch, every article of which was minutely spccified. Even the kind milkman was not forgotten, who gratutiously emp- tied cans, giving the boys a rich treat just as they were embarking on the Pennsylvania. All this, together with the awful sickness that followed, with the weary days and nights and their long continued stay on the vessel has been written again and again, and though it may seem a tardy acknowl- edgment, we feel like telling the so- cieties and all who dealt so kindly with the strangers in their midst that our hearts will.ever go out in gratitude for the many kindnesses shown our boys. Some of the mothers of the boys of companies A and H here in the city have formed a cir_le which meets each Sunday afternoon to talk of, exchange news items and pray for our absent boys in the Philippines, and in the last meeting we decided to send this word of thanks to all in your good city who so generously contributed to the pleas- ure and comfort ~° our loved ones, many of them absent from home for the first time. We remember, too, the lately bereaved mothers of your State who mourn the loss of dear boys in far- away Manila. May God comfort them. Gratefully to all who were interested in our boys, from the Fifth Iowa: Regi- ment's mothers. ° MRS M C. STAVES, §etre(a Mothers’ Meeting. e TWO DAMAGE SUITS. A Death zad a Broken Leg Lead Litigatzon. Mrs. Nellie F. French, individually and as guardian of her children, Clara, John and Alice, filed suit vesterday against Lorenzo Lorenzini to recover $20,000 dam- ages for the death of her husband, John . French, who was accidentally Kkiiled January Decedent was employed to do some plumbin~ work on_ defendant's building, 2621 Clay street. While climbin; up a ladder attached to the house one o the rounds broke, throwing French to his death. Mrs.. French avers that the acci- dent was cauged by reason of defendant’s negligence. Hence the suit. rich Seegelkin has sued Bates & Suvdam to recover $26,05 damages for personal injuries. Seegelkin was employed by the defend- ants and was furnished by them with a horse and buggy. 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