The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. MAY 28, 1899 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, OAKLAND OFFICE... = ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE..... Room 188, World Building C. GEO. KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. WASHINGEON (D. C.) OFFICE.........Wellington Hotel C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE -Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Ad rertising Representative. e, AMUSEMENTS. and the Flame.” The Gypsy Baron Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon rner Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. ama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- s, ete. Solores and Twenty-Fifth streets, Circus to-day. cert, This Afternoon. THE CONFERENCE A FAILURE. Mr. its be abortive. admitted onference will HE Peace C y sufficiently White has already T DOES HE NEED A MONUMENT ? UR esteemed contemporary, the Evening Post, which of late has devoted its editorial page to : vagrom fancies and curious statistics, put to itself the question some time ago, “Does Dewey need a monument?” and after wrestling with it announced on Friday that he does not. The conclusion is just. Admiral Dewey needs no monument, either in his back yard, his front yard or en board his ship. Indeed, it is difficult to see what he would do with one were it presented to him. Such things are useful neither to private citizens nor to naval officers. A man with a monument thrust upon him would be about as embarrassed as the peasant was with the elephant. . ! Had the Post contented itseli with announcing its conclusion on the subject all would have been well with it, but in an evil moment it permitted itself to indulge in the rashness of trying to make an argu- ment. It asserts, in the first place, that a shait, or a statue, or a monument, in bronze or brass, could not enhance the fame of the Admiral or render more en- during the honor conferred by a great people. His | name and his fame, it says, are enshrined in the | hearts of his countrymen, and he will live in the pages of history beyond the term of crumbling stone or metals corrupted by the rust of ages. All of which is most excellent fooling. ‘“Because he needs no praise, shall we be dumb?"” Had the peo- ple never praised Dewey, never sounded their appre- ciation of his valor and his patriotism, his deed would ere this have been forgotten. A feeling or a thought which is never recalled or never expressed soon fades from memory. It is only by giving it expression in enduring forms through the medium of letters or of art that any sentiment of the brain or feeling of the heart is perpetuated among men. There were heroes before Agamemnon, but no e are as plain as the re- 1 ts of Europe ceased m‘ of the United and the | i De Tocqueville were replaced by | { potential mood in which Professor | d of what we have done and can do, the United States has worked certain ‘uropean Governments. | eople, guaranteed the right to bear arms, in- | his outcom States, ons in several seventy mil . pres: 'I&u institutions everywhere. Heretofore ted States have been cited as proof that not armies but larger liberties were needed by the i the Old World for the defense of their in- and their territory. fortunately, the people of this republic have not crmitted, or have not seen fit, to properly ap- ¢ the value of their policy to theniselves or of their example to the rest of the world. From some source a sinister influence has gone abroad inoculat- ing them with a thirst for mil for subjects to be ruled rather than for citizens to rule themselves. At present, by these causes, our past example is obscured: it is in eclipse. We have per- standing army, manently more than doubled our with the immediate prospect of quadrupling it. are paying the usual high price of glory in war taxes, there is no prospect of abating. ¢ th the farther end which has been reached by the Europ€an nations. We are feared by the weak and hated by the strong. We might have been present in the Pgace Con- ference in plain clothes, advising the nations to de- velop larger freedom for their people from the germ of parliamentary government, which all of them on <he Continent except Russia have taken from us We might have pointed to the vast consumptive power of our lightly taxed people and of their cor a which wn the p of relative power of production, which sends vas wealth-gaining surplus into the markets of the world w st To the cry of the older countries that marke be blown open with gunpowder and trade propas by the sword, we could have pointed to the peacefn conquests of our commerce and the mighty meas ure of results we have achieved by peace by following the arts of construction and abjuring those of de- struction. But every American knows that we are not present in that character, nor able to point with pride to those things. Quite to the contrary. Our flag floats over slaughter in far lands, and the press and the commer- cial spirit raise the new cry that trade follows the flag—not where it goes in peace, but where it goes We send military delegates in company with our diplomats to consult about peace. We are a new terror let loose in the world, and the awiul power we have accumulated in a century and a quarter by peaceful pursuits inspires exactly the same feeling in the world as did the trembling of the earth under the in war. hard heels of the armies of Xerxes, Alexander, Caesar, Gengis Khan and Napoleon. It is well to look facts in the face. We are no longer propagandists of the principles of the Declara- tion of Independence, but we are abroad in the world standing on the mere physical brutalities of the O tend manifesto. The temples of the Prince of Peace are closed and that of Janus is opened. The declara- tion of Colonel Denby, Commissioner to the Philip- pines, that having the power to do so we propose by aggression and conquest to take by force, wherever we find it, whatever we think will be to our material ad- vantage, is a frank expression of our present atti- tude to the rest of the world: Our old policy has demonstrated, in a short century and a quarter, a brief forenoon in the life of a nation, its wisdom-in its re- sults in the progress we have made. The opposite policy upon which we have entered is a novelty to us, but its results may be studied in the imperial experi- ments which have gone before. In the conference we have nothing to offer in our former character as a non-military republic. We are there just as the other glory-seeking nations are there. Before us and before their vision rises the glorious panorama of Asiatic splendor. The aroma * of the bloom islands of the tropical sea is in every nostril. Populations of peaceful people, incapable of defense; numbering three-quarters of a hillion souls, bend to their tasks, while their countries welter in sunshine and invite conquest and spoliation. The weak every- where shade their eyes and scan the horizon in vain for a friend. Justice has no temple in which they can/ have a day in court against the strong. In the con- ference we are estopped from pleading their cause. It is doubtiul if even the cruelties of war will Le checked by agreement. The world’s sky is full of hawks, and the dove of peace flutters to the jungle for safety. Instead of illustrating Christian civilization by re- turning armies to the arts of peace, it is probable that the twentieth century will dawn in widespread slaugh- ter, or will witness the disarmament of the weak and a movement in. retrogression that will retard the rise of man into greater freedom and its conschent hap- piness. Americans will wish it were otherwise and will ‘deplore the agency of the republic in the per- petration of wholesale bloodshed, but they are help- less in the hands of a sinister influence which hopes to follow conquest, whip in hand, to secure the profits of involuntary labor in lands where white men can live only as masters and rulers of subjects. lions, with a little army of only | sted an example that encouraged the | v glory. for power. | We We are well | Homer sang their glory, and the world knows them not The hero to whose hqnor no song has been d, no monument erected. is as obscure in death as the nameless slaves that served in the cellars of he courts where Jamshyd reveled and drank deep.” No hero needs a monument, but a people whose na- tional life must be fed with noble memories need all forms of monuments, that those memories may be forever fresh in their minds and in their hearts. Pursuing its folly with a fatuous persistency, the | Post goes on to say we have no artists, sculptors or | provide a | monument worthy of Dewey, and adds: ‘“Let us at- tain to the genius of building monuments to heroes before we risk the failure that may subject the hero thus ‘honored’ to the scorn of future generations not | soenthusiastic as ourselves over “deeds of heroism’ that may appear less heroic in the pages of a cold; pas- sionless, impartial and accurate history of the event.” The argument that we must not erect- monuments until we have learned to erect them is equivalent to the old grandmother’s advice to the boy not to go into the water until he learned to swim. As a matter of fact we have in this country many artists quite ca- | pable designing constructing mental works of the highest class. Several of | kind erected in the E: architects with the genius requisite to of and monu- the vears are equal in magnitude, dignity and artistic ! beauty to any recently raised in Europe. The Pacific Coast needs a monument to Dewey as {an expression of regard for his glorious service to | the republic, as a memorial to future generations of 4 his patriotism and of the honor in which it is now | By waytof bearing their burdens for them the British | | held, and as a stimulus to artists and to genius. The | whole republic needs the monument, and it will be | erected. APPOINTMENT OF SENATORS. T is undeniable that in every State in the Union | l efforts are being quietly made to commit Federal enators, on the score of friendship, to the re- versal of uniform precedents and the violation of clear and distinct -constitutional law, by Quay. under the appointment of the Governor of Pennsylvania, after he had failed of an election by the | joint committee of the Legislature of that State. | It is hard for intelligent and patriotic citizens to conceive that their great national council, filled with | the representatives of autonomous American States, occupying a legislative position analogous to the ju- | | dicial distinction of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the plan of its construction and in its his- | torical dignity powerful and grand beyond compari- son, should be even suspected of an intention to sac- rifice its honor for personal considerations. Such a calamity is not to be lightly anticipated. But there 2re many indications that it is believed to be pos- sible. Should it actually occur, it will be accepted throughout the world as positive evidence that the Federal Senate is “a millionaire club.,” and as con- clusively proving the necessity of placing the power of selection directly in the hands of the people. of his country, and, if there are degrees of solemnity in the assumption of obligations, his oath binds him with pre-eminent sanctity. And, on the cases in which Federal Senators can be appointed, the con- | stitution is free of any trace of ambiguity and as | rellucid as crystal. By article II, section 3, it pro- | vides that when “during the recess of the Legisla- | ture,” “by resignation or otherwise,” a vacancy oc- | curs, it may be filled by the “temporary appointment” of the Governor of the State “until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such va- |cancy.” | This language’ speaks for itself. It needs no ex- pository treatment. It cannot be evaded or doubted by any man of ordinary intelligence, nor its binding force upon the cons cbey it avoided by any quibble or by any sophistry. | In the records of a hundred and twelve years, so far as we are advised, no disobedience to its mandate is {to be found. When Senator George Reede of Dela- ware resigned in 1793, and in January, 1704, the Leg- islature of that State adjourned without electing his successor, the gubernatorial appointee, Kensy Johns, was rejected, because there had been an op- portunity to elect. When Lanman of Connecticut { reached the end of his term, March 3, 1825, and was appointed the next day to succeed himself, he was refused his seat because it was held that, when a regu- lar term expired, there was no vacancy, within the meaning of the constitution, even though the Legis- lature was in recess. In the Corbett case there was a Federal Senator to be elected, and when a session of the Legislature of Oregon began a joint convention cotld not be held because the Senate only was or- ganized and the Assembly failed even to choose tem- porary officers. In this instance, if ever, there was an opportunity to claim an exceptional situation which justified the appointment by the Governor. But, as in the Delaware precedent, there had been a chance to clect, thrown away through legislative perversity, and Corbett was denied admission by a vote of 50 to 19. The most remarkable fact about this last evidence of consistency and of obedience to constitutional law by the upper house of Congress is that Matt Quay himself is to be ranged with the majority. He was then a Senator from Pennsylvania. Senator Morgan of Alabama, who, like Senator Perkins of California, A considered that the special facts of the Corbett ap- stern States within the past few | seating Matt | Every Senator swears to maintain the constitution | ience of a Senator pledged to | pointment took it out of the category of the uniform precedents, was outspoken, as is usual with him, in ranking himself with the minority. The Congres- sional Record shows that, on February 28, 1808, the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections re- ported the resolution declaring that Corbett was not entitled to admission. This resolution was adopted by the vote already stated. Senators Morgan and Quay were paired, and neither actually voted, which was legally and fully equivalent to a vote by Senator Quay against Corbett. On March 3, 1800, the regular terms of Senators White, Quay, Gray and Cannon, respectively of Cali- fornia, of Pennsylvania, of Delaware and of Utah, ex vired, and, in each.of these States, the Legislature in joint convention was then voting for a Senator, and a deadlock existed -which remained unbroken until adjournment. On the authority of the Delaware case, as the term of each of these four Senators ex- pired by limitation, even if the several Legislatures had not been in session, there could have been no *“vacancy” that it was within gubernatorial authority [to fill. But, as there was no “recess,” and the four | Legislatures simply failed to elect, within the distinct | provisions of the constitution no appointment could be made without palpable usurpation, and no such ap- pointment could be indorsed without dishonor. It is true that the Senate of the United States resembles every other legislative body in the fact that it is the | sole judge of the qualifications of its own members, | but it has never been understood that, because it pos- | sessed the power, it was justified in violating con- stitutional obligations. It is possible that it might | seat a subject of Great Britain, or of Russia, or a Tagal, who had never even declared an intention to be naturalized, and without one of the qualifications prescribed in terms by the constitution. Any of these acts would be no more and possibly less unprincipled and injurious than the ratification of the gubernatorial appointment of Matt Quay or Dan Burns. Matt Quay at least possesses ability and experience and he has evidently laid up social capital with his fel- | | low members. Dan Burns is a paragon of incapacity and of saturated political corruption, whose record | alone amounts to a positive disqualification for any office. But, without reference to the distinctions be- tween the ‘two men, to seat either through the as- | sumption of legislative powers by a State executive | would be a revolutionary proceeding that presump- | tively is impossible in the Federal Senate. | THE BOERS AND THE BRITISH. ERE not public interest in foreign affairs so | distracted from one quarter of the globe to | another by imbroglios in China, Samoa, the | Philippines and Central Africa, there would bq much | | both of amusement and instruction to be gained by | studying, or at least closely observing and following, | the course of events in the Transvaal. The mutual relations of the British and the Boers, when the char- acteristi¢s and the comparative strength of the two | people are considered, are about as interesting as any- thing of the sort to be found in all the pages of his- | tory. ¢ It was with a zgalous willingness to take up “the | white man’s burden” the British went to the land of | the Boers. They found there a people who were not | developing the rich resources of their soil, a people | so barbarous"they would rather take life easy in the herding of cattle than to work hard in digging gold. got possession of the gold mines and then tried to | get possession of the country also. Just there they | struck a snag. The Boer preferred to earry his own burden, and even showed a readiness to fiiht and fight | hard before he would let himself be religved of it. As the case stands now the Boer has the burden. He runs the government, and the Britisher has noth- ing to do except to work. He is relieved of all care and respensibility in the Transvaal. The Boer prac- [ tices upon him a policy of “benevolent ‘assimilation” as soon as he comes into the country. He is allowed, | encouraged and even gently enforced to pay taxes. | His children are’ paternally compelled to learn the Boer language. He is himseli educated in Boer cus- toms, given the wholesome discipline of Boer laws, |and in every way carefully guarded, nursed and trained to be fit to take part in the government when the Boer in his wisdom sees fit to grant it. British settlers in the Transvaal getting, in fact, just what the British in other lands are dealing out to the natives. Yet they do not like it. They are | eager to help bear the burden. They desire to under- | take some of the laborious responsibilities of holding | office and administering public affairs. They cannot see how well off they are in a region where every- thing is done for them, and where they have nothing to do except pay taxes and learn to speak South Af- rican Dutch. Of course the situation cannot long endure. The Boers are but a feeble folk in comparison with the race whom they have undertaken to hold in leading strings. Their little primitive republic has been sur- rounded by the swelling and advancing tide of British | aggression, and sooner or later it must be submerged. Its doom is as plainly written as was that of the pas- toral Spanish Californians in the old days when the first American adventurers crossed the and discovered the richness of their land., No amount of courage, patriotism or dogged stub- bornness can protect a people in this generation who stand against civilization. The Boers must either | swim with the current or perish. That much is sure; but, nevertheless, they are making a good fight and giving the world its most interesting lesson on the ! subject of “burden bearing” that is now being taught in any part of the world. . are mountains l The three Judges of the criminal division of the i Superior Court have announced that, unless the Su- | pervisors furnish the wherewithal to feed men en- | gaged in jury duty, they will hear no more criminal | cases. Next thing we know relief committees for the | succor of starving jurors will be all the go in San | Francisco. i e | The direction of the fence that Collis P. Hunting- | ton is (ryingv to build around the earth will have to | be changed again. The Supreme Court has just de- | cided that there are several very valuable sections of lland in Los Angeles County that the Southern Pa- | cific Railway will have to yield up. R ARy | The digpatches announce that Nicaragua is ani ' mated by an intense hatred of Americans. There | have been instances where fear proved to be the only | highway to popularity, and Nicaragua seems to | have been looking for a sound thrashing for some | time.” - Oom Paul desires reform in the Transvaal, and the | British in that republic desire reform also. Such being' éthe ‘case, it is a pity that the reform which each de- sires is some law providing a means for running the other out of the country. i ‘What a godsend it would be to California if its Legislatures could be made up of members from the Cuban army! Uncle Sam has been trying hard re- cently to give each of them his share of $3,000,000, but not one sems to be out for the stuff. - e eun«-u*o*m*mo*owu*omomflonqofima&om’m LETTERS FROM THE PROPLE. ; OO * D ¥ W*0*0*0*6*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*C;*m*0*0*0*@*’*‘*0‘*0*0 PROTEST AGAINST EXAMINATIONS. To the Editor of The Call: As a parent of four children, all of whom attend the public schools, T wish to submit a vigorous protest against the rehabilitation of the ancient “tried and found wanting”’system of examinations in our public schools. ¢ In last Monday’s Call there appeared a communication from one of the oldest and best-known teachers, every word of which must hdve struck a responsive chord in the heart and mind of all parents who in any degree follow the work done in’our public schools. ) It happens that I was a pupil in one of thé high schools of this State at the time of the change from promotion by examination to promotion by the recom- mendation of the teacher. The principal of our high school at the time was a -man from Columbia College, and he was the direct instigator of the change in our city. He appeared before the Board of Education and urged that the teach- er in the grammar and lower grades be made personally responsible for the pupils promoted from his or her class. He contended that promotions made on the records, monthly reviews, classroom work and general proficiency of the child during the year is of far more satisfaction to the teacher about to receive the child than is the record that he has received (perhaps in return for honest work, perhaps not) 60 per cent on ten questions. The principal of whom I speak raised our high school to a standard which eaused it to be one of the first whose graduates were accredited to the uni- versity, and when I afterward entered the public schools of our city as a member of its corps of teachers I found the st ard of excellence elevated by the doing away with examinations. There was less “working for credi more work to satisfy the demands of the teacher, who was the one to be satisfied from day to day and month to mohth. Another phase of the subject to me is that as a pupil I have seen boys and girls who had done wretched work during the year succeed in &:uslng an examination by having salient points jotted down on the linen cuffs, on the under side of an innocent appearing white apron and divers other ways (veritably did the cheating become a science), so that even under the never- resting vigilance of the keenest teacher did they gain tite required per cent; while right alongside of them sat children who had done good, honest work, but who became so nervously wrought up that they bungled their answers and made fail- ures of their examinations, and the record of their year’s work and their teacher’s testimony had to be called in to pass them to the grade for which they were in reality well prepared. \/ . As a mother of children, each.one of whom has always ranked among the ‘honoraries,” I fully realize that a most unfortunate fact of the case is that both boys and girls are passing through the stage of most rapid physical de- velopment during the very vears devoted to their grammar school work, and that while to keep up a steady, honest devotion to their work from month to month does not harm them, six weeks of the feverish, nervous strain which those children are now under, not to mention the days of examination, is actual robbery from them of good red blood, which goes to supply the forced draught they are now under, and which, after their year of study, belongs to them to “have and to hold.” Y I believe in the schools being conducted for the ‘‘greatest good to the greatest number,” and do not believe in {\unlshlng the many because a few succeed in being promoted who should not be. In place of being, as President Bergerot claimed (according to the newspapers) that the order was a step forward, it certainly is a leap of several steps backward in the work of education. The trouble is not there. When Superintendent Webster shall have been ahle to familiarize himself with the work of such teachers as do not rece commendation of their principals, and the Board of Education shall as val “back him up” as they have in this examination proposition, then will the city be supplied with good teachers. Until then it will not help matters any to add to the burdens the poor children and their parents, as well as the many faithful teachers, already have to bear. If to have these examinations this year is inevitable, then at least should the year's average on monthly examinations, which have doubtless in almost if not .quite every instance been good monthly tests, stand as a half in making up the required percentage. Sincerely yours, A MOTHER. ® THE TEACHERS SIDE. To the Editor of The Call—Some daily papers are saying that the proposed examination of pupils in our public schools reveals loose methods of teaching, and that the course of study has been ignored; that now pupils are being pushed to make up for the deficiency of instructors. ‘While this may be true of a few it is a libel upon the large majority of teach- ers. As a rule they are hardworking and conscientious. They give more time to their classes and make greater eiforts than is required by their contract. I think the poorest of them has never been known to sit with her feet on a desk and read the morning paper for even fifteen minutes after time to begin work, a prac- tice not unknown in any other depa tment of the municipal government. The real cause of the difficulty over the coming examinati as I have heel informed by many teachers, fs the document known as the ourse of Stud As it came at first from the hands of Superintendent Webster it embraced work in the great nimber of books which the old board of malodorous memory desired to assist the book men to force the people to buy. Besldes thig; Mr. Webster was fresh from a high school class and had no knowledge of the capacity of lit- tle children, and since then has developed no a hing down to them. The department s paralyzed when this first reached the schools, and it was found necessary to revis fore anything could be done. A second revision had to be made later, and this later one is the r about which so much is now being said. It was sent to the schools at the beginning of (hlg vear and all went to work with might and main to do the best they could under it. There were certain pages marked inthe “Advanced Arithmetic”’ and “Baile Mental™ and otner textbooks which were to be taught. If a teacher had worked all day on arithmetic alone she could scarcely have covered the ground, and could certainly not have made the little pint jugs before her hold the gallon-: 'zr(tl roblems, for they were at least t vears in advance of their ability to reason. What was true of arithmetic wa 0 true of geography in the lower grade: They were required to study the earth as a whole, learn its motions, cause of seasons, zones, climates, winds, ocean currents, products and occupations of in- habitants of the different zones and the different races of men, together with much more which was as abstract to them as the effect upon the latitude of Greenwich of the vibrations of the north pole is to most men. But the woman at the desk took up the “‘Teachers’ Burden''.and faithfully did-her best to eram all this down the resisting throats of the children. Then.she presented them to the principal. vwhiudmnus]y examined them upon this upprofitable work and found it ad been well done. 2 - 3 g Then the teacher gave a little time—what little. was left—to the easy things all about us which the children could grasp. and supposed she would have five weeks more for good sensible hard work to fit them up for another step up the gducational ladder, when the thunderbolt fell in the shape of an order for an examination. in two weeks or thereabouts she must ew all the year's work, for that wuich had been dropped, Mother Nature, kindly to the race, had permitted to drop out as utterly as if washed ' away by the Sacramento in flood. She must roll up the balls and willy-nilly force them down the throats of her pupils. For one thing, she, the teacher, is to be judged by what can be got from these pupils of he Can teachers rightfully be held responsible for not being able to teach our children what they are too immature to grasp? No: not though ‘“several principals,” with each a fad of her own, has accepted the fads of others for the pleasure of getyng her own particular one into this pre- cious course of study. Give us a course of study made by one man or one woman who understands children from the little ones up—not from the top down. Then teachers are aware how nervous children are and that a very little thing upsets them. A new teacher is to be put over them while they are passing this test and one for a vear accustomed to children a vear older than they. A year is a very long time in the life of a ch .d and means more change than any of us who are not teachers can realize. With his own teacher the child would be much more apt to tell what he knows, which might be supposed to be what the board s after. This examination will be a strain upon the painstaking children which will do them infinite harm. And what will it be for the teacher! Faithful, intelligent work is a thankless task! A TEACHER. TWb KINDS OF TREASON. L] To the Editor of The Call: There is good food fof.thought and réflection in the editorial appearing in to-day’s Call entitled “What Is Treason?” It is partic- ularly suggestive of two things—impending danger and the duty of all truly patri- otic citizens to unite in averting it. So wildly enthusiastic over the conquest of foreign territory are the imperialists of to-day that many of them seem to consid- er it their duty to denounce every mariopposed to such a policy as a By such denunciations the champions of aggression hope to stifle opp the grab game and insure smooth sailing for the greedy, unpatriotic who are willing to see every sacred principle of international honor sacrificed for the sake of their own personal aggrandizement. But it is not supposable that any honest opponent of ‘“‘criminal aggression” who has the courage of his con- victions will be bluffed or intimidated by the senseless cry of treason to the Gov- ernment. The real patriot is composed of sterner stuff. Now, in my humble judgment, there are two kinds of treason, sists of giving aid and comfort to an enemy when our country is engaged in a just war with a foreign power, or in putting down a rebellion within its own borders. The other kind of treason consists In repudiating the fundamental prin- ciples on which our government is founded and seeking to substitute therefor a foreign policy in accordance with the most absolute despotisms of the century. That is precisely what our wild-eved critics are doing, though they may not be aware of it. Some of them doubtiess are ignorant of what man’s natural rights consist of, and they imagine that the code of morals for an ageregation of men called a nation may safely be .different from that which all civilized persons recognize as binding between man and man. But some of the most vehement shouters for imperialistic_rule. are men of experience in legislation and familiar with international laws. They know—or certainly ought to know—that the v essence of popular government is the theory that Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed and that a departure from that fun- damental proposition means that our ship of state is drifting away from her moorings into the dangerous waters of perpetual war, with all the horrors pe: taining to such an abnormal condition. Such men are guilty of treason to liberty, and when they charge us with disloyalty we should huri the charge back in their faces and promptly show who are the real enemies of our country's best interests. No man who is loyal to liberty, to free government, to equal rights for all with special privileges to none, to even-handed justice between nations as well as between individuals, can be disloyal to his country if his Government is worth having. Therefore those who charge the opponents of imperialism with being guilty of treason either do not know what treason is or they admit by implication that the Government is a fraud. 1 hope and believe The Call will stand by its anti-imperialistic guns through thick and thin, come what may. The right must prevail. RALPH HOYT. San Franoisco, May 20. WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME. One kind con- To the Editor of The Call—Sir: I have been observing with considerable sat- isfaction and pride the extensive preparations that are being made to give the First California Volunteers a right royal reception upon their return from Ma- nila. This is right and proper and is only bestowing due honor upon our brave boys, which they have so heroically earned on those inhospitable shores. I do not believe that anything is too good for them; but at the same time I would like to call public attention through your valuable journal to the fact that ‘“there are others.”” On the armed transport Buffalo, which recently arrived in New York by way of the Suez canal from Manila, there were several hundred blue jack- ets and marines. They are the men of Dewey, who assisted in the destruction of Admiral Montefo’s fleet of warships and made it possible to land our infan- try. They are the men who saved our Western coast several unpleasant half- hours by the annihilation of the Spanish fleet of the Pacific, and they held what thear had taken until our Government sent to their aid transports laden with soldiers and supplies. Among these lads at least a hundred shipped from San Francisco and nel %hhorlng towns, my son being of those from this city. Why not accord to them a fitting reception and present them also with - proper medals? That would not detract from the glory of our fighting First, but would show a larger public generosity and at the same timé make many a sailor boy feel happy. Yours truly, JAMES W. COLLINS, 54 Sixth street. an Francisco, May 20, 1809 Poker Cases Continued. When the cases of the poker players in the Metropole Club were called in acting Marine Firemen’s Funds. Two additional charges of felony em- bezzlement were booked against Patrick Rogers, ex-financial secretary of the Ma- rine Firemen's Association, yesterday. The allegation.is that he embezzled the sums of $260 and $300. The chnrfie of em- bezzhnj was reduced to misdemeanor | embezzlement in Judge Mogan's court yesterday, and Attorney Wilson for the defendant asked that all ehnrges should be embodied in one complaint, but the Judge sald he was not in a position to so Police Judge Groezinger's court yester- day they were by consent continued till June 2. . The suggestion was made last Wednesday that the defendants should plead guilty and a nominal fine be imposed. The cases of the players in the Palace saloon were called in Judge Graham’'s court, and at the request of Attorney Ach, for the defendants, they were continue till next Saturday, to bé set. AROUND THE ¢ CORRIDORS Judge T. C. Law of Merced is at the Lick. General E. C. Humphreys of Denvef at the Lick. Lieutenant C. A. McAllister is at the Occidental. Lieutenant Jack Parsons, U. S. Fthe Grand. F. Liddeke, a merchant of Centerville, is at the Lick. Lieutenant D. C. Hanrahan, U. at the Occidental. J. F. Devendorf, a real estate man of San Jose, is at the Grand. - Fred A. Hine a prominent undertaker A, is at S. N, is of Los Ang s stopping at the Palace. Samuel Newman, formerly secretary of the Rallros joners; under; the | last regime, and Michael Welch, returned from Chicago yesterday, where they at- tended the of the American Ticket of which | they were elected members. James C. Talmage, representative of the Grand Trunk ¥ arge | of the Pacific Coast’ Agency An- geles, is in the city. Mr. Talmage has come to look over the territory in the in- terest of his road. He is the son of A. | A. Talmage, recently deceased, who, was | one of the big railroad men of his day, having been first vice president and gen- eral manager of the Wab: tem for | years and holding a similar position with the Missouri Pac — e ——— ‘;CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 21.—A. Goodman ot | san ) Francisco is —at the Vendome; ”7. Brett of San Francisco is at the Impe | rial; Reginald White of San Francisco is | at the Hoffman; A. W. Merrill of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue; J. B. Stetson of San Francisco is at the Albe- | marle; Dr. C. G. Kenyon 'of San Fran- cisco is at the Manhattan. Henry A. But- | ters, wife and daughter, are p ers on the Umbria, sailing for Liverpool to- day. — c————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. & It is es- revenue of the 000, CZAR OF RUSSIA-—S. S Heiv | Czar of R FANNY DAVENPORT—J. Fanny Davenport, the actres in London, England, July 1 in Canton, Pa., July 20, City. born I City. When Marshal alifornia is named announcement will be made in the news columns of The Call. _KILRAIN—Daily Subseri- bers, City. The fight between John L. Sul- 1 and Jake Kilrain took place at Rich- burg, Mis July §, 1889. Sullivan won in | seventy-five round: PAWNBROKER'S CHARGES—E. M, City. Pawnbrokers. are not allowed to arge any more on a small loan than on e onc. . The law fays that the in- ferest that may be charged shall not be more than 2 per cent a month. for OR SOLDIERS — A Sub- Every Californian who en= f the United States, during the war. with » a medal from the Na- 4 MEDALS F! scriber, City. | Spain, will rece! | tive Sons’ committee on medals for the | brave. —A. W. H., Cala- pon United States taxes to the State or i so long as the patent |land does n county on hi Cal. The follo is a complete | | h sued to him, but he is lia- | bié or county for taxes on | improveme | REVENUE STAMPS—S. C., Oakland, | : | 3.4 | 8 17 603%, COUNT AN CASINO-—J. H. K. and J. M., City. Inz asino if twokplay- ers on the last play have each an‘equal number of points to make to go out and in | that play each ould score’ an _equal number of points, the one holding cards would -be entitled (..] count first and that being the case wou ) out | 15 OR AR City. As in the | sentence written, * of water” is th | prime object, it is grammatical to five hundred, tons of water rare evap- | orated.” 1f water w ime object, { it would be proper to s | POLLTAX-O. S, n is employed on a river xcept he is & 'aliforn ine per: | | 1 ‘ | TRANSPORTS FROM MANILA—E. H., | City. No one in San Francisco can tell | when the transports that are to bring | back the volunteers will roach port. Tk will make the trip from Manila_to San a You will ment of departure and the v | reach the port of desti twenty to thirty-two d; | THE HEAVY BATTERY—L. City. There is no advice at thi is city as to when the First California Artillery, U. 8. V., 1 return to ancisco, nor that it will ct h the California Volunt | that artille leaves for n | the fact will be made known by and it will appear in the ne The Call. neisco teiegraph columns of | | | PEOPLES—H. - 8., Ci “People” is used when the more exact term, race, | nation or language, be misleading; | as “‘the people of or in the | plural. “the Bantu Tennysc | in Locksley Hall, the ards of the thro the Hhmg e satd Thou must peoples and | prophesy again before many peg nations and tongues and kings. LAND TO_SOLDI . S., Oakland, Cal. A soldiér who served in the war with | Spain is entitled to take up Govern land, but the only henefit he deriv that he may have the time he served in | the war deducted from the time of r {'dence required on the iand. He must ta " | the same steps to swcure the land tha |.any other citizen wouid have to take in | the United States Land Office. A soldier | has no authority to sell his right to take | up land. e —— Townsend's California Glace Frui in freetched boxes or Jap bask | Market street, Palace Hotel bufld e information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- Special gomery street. Telepnone Main 1042, * —_— e Japanese Shoemaker Missing. Y. Hoshimo, 807 Larkin street, reported to the police yesterday the disappearance ake Okamote, r.at 1101 n street, i Al .rnoon, leaving a note that ke was He is about 30 af ng going to commit suicide. years of age. il TR A Work of Art. The new book, “Wonderland,” just fssued b; the Northern Pacific Railway Company, is the prettiest publication issued by any rallway company this year. Jt is full of beautiful half- tone llustrations, and contains besides a well- written description of a trip taken over this finely equipped line, including a tour through the wonderful Yellowstone Park. Send 6c in stamps and it will be mailed to you. T. K. Statéler, Gen. Agt., 633 Market st., San Fran- cisco. g —_——————— Rock 1sland Route Excursions. Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rlo Grande and Rock Tgland raflways. Throug) tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Boston. Manager and pogter accompany these excur- sions through to Boston. For tickets. sleeping car accommodations and further information address CLINTON JONES, General Agent | Rock Island Railway, 624 Market st & Ha