The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1899, Page 6

RSDAY THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, T | OUR OFFICIAL HAREM. | HE latest news from our oriental affliction that- Professor Schurman has visited the Sulu| archipelago, part of the Philippines, and has called on the Mahometan Sultan who rules the same to receive his submission to the star-spangled banner. This Sultan rules about two millions of polygamous | s. The Koran permits them to have four | wives apiece, and, under certain circumstances, they | may have reinfofcements and auxiliaries. As they are far distant from the Sheik ul Islam, who oversees the | morals and manners of the Mahometan world, the : educational convention is estimated to have brought to Los Angeles 15,000 people. She was able to take care of that number well and comfortably, and to the satisfaction of all; but it is said the Epworth League committee expects to have 30,000 delegates and visit- ors at Indianapolis. Can a city of the size of Los Angeles provide accommodations for such a gather- ing? We have no desire to interfere in the internal poli- tics of the Epworth League, but the leaders and in- fluential members ought to see the folly of presenting themselves at Indianapolis in contending factions in- | | stead of a united, harmonious body. The California islanders may overpay the limit, both in wives and | delegations should be brought together to settle The reports from them warrant the state- | among themselves the choice of which city should hey live up to their religion in both re-| hayve the great convention, and then all should com- h impel them to extremes of de- | bine to make a winning contest for it. pine archipelago had been purchased by the | i ‘ United States, under the treaty of Paris, for twenty million dollars, The Call frequently invited the THURSDAY .. Proprietor. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Mahomet: _Markat and Third Sts.. S. F | ne Main 1868. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street 1574, FUBLICATION OFFIC) Tele, ROON EDITORIAL WEEK. 15 CENTS P 5 cents. £6.00 | side issues. 3.00 | ment that t} ]“;(. | spects, and 1.50 | votion they f: 1.00 | y or two will be laid up " | Schurman called on the S told him the United States de 1 sovereign of hig country, and assured him that this ¢ the future with no fear that an extra against them. Professor | an of these Sulus and red to be known as the | THE PHILIPPINE SITUATION. FTER the pretensions of Spain to the Philip- requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... ....908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Bt Government would protect his religion and the cus- ger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Of course the tom its and er 1s which it pe — et | chief of them is pe it id that | attention of the Government to the fact that, to se- AMUSEMENTS. lie had no objection to becoming a Yankee, if there | cure the actual possession of the islands under the money in it, and his harem was let alone and his | transferred claim of divine right would require an people were permitted their usual plurality of wives. | army of not less than one hundred thousand, and Prc n assured his Majesty that if any- | probably of five hundred thousand, men. It a!so Sug- American heart it is to see a | gested that if the policy of permanently holding this is oriental vine and | Asiatic acquisition, either as a colony or as a terri- | | torial appendage to the United States, should be | adopted, as our soldiers were mainly citizens and had | been educated and trained in the American conccp-: tion of liberty and independence, it would probably | become necessary to replace them by an army of mer- cenaries. The cheap labor press, in which the Examiner is included, the imperialistic press, which embraces all the agencies of American speculation and of British | pressure, and the humanitarian who smear | hypocrisy with civilization, literally howled, roared nd frothed at the mouth over this essentially pracli—‘ | cal view of the Philippine situation. The idea that the Algy. ssor Schur ; gladdened tt ] ymetan Sulu sitting under | fig tree surrounded by his four a DL el Ce e ithorized wives and | These eed to pay the alties. iliaries suited to his stati having passed, the professor aj | Sultan $10,000 American gold and an annual subsidy | i in for admitting that he belongs to this s and concubines h all his w 1e American pulpit has too generally | its credit, supported in m. It has ) dishonorable violation of the promise made by Spain by AUCTION SALES. d not to stified the erial ation to the world when we warred or scrubs hings and had made us | It has saying that God ordered dug up texts 1g the guilty d e ———— lfaithlessly lie to ‘the o el @ MENDACITY OF THE EXAMINER IS DENOUNCED Newspaper Greed Is Satisfied by Picturing the Oregon Troops as Mendicants. Army Officers Resent the Gratuitous Insult Given to the Soldiers by a Yeliow Journal Seeking to Gain Cheap Notoriety. General Shafter Exposes an Indecent Scheme. clothing is only issued t'.o er thecolonel of theregi- that there is no authority sue of OU can say as coming from me that troops upon requisition made by eith ment or their company commanders; S | except an act of Congress which would cover a gratuitous is clothing. There is a great quantity of clothing here in the city, ten times as much clothing as could be used by a regiment. The cglonel was told by me the day that he arrived that all the clothing he wanted was at his service; that he could put in his requisition for such as he needed and it would be issued at once. He replied that the men were disinclined to draw military clothing,_ which they could not very well wear in civil life, and pay for it just as they were going out of the service. The suggestion was thgn made that they could draw underclothing, which could be worn Jjust as well after leaving the service as before. A quartermaster is detailed at the Oregon camp who has large quantities of clothing in his storehouse and he is ready to issue it, but there has not been an article of clothingcalled for up to to-day. The men inmy opinion are perfectly comfortable. £33 2 2 e to their party 1 MUNICIPAL POLITICS. srance that the | experience of the decadent Roman republic could be : | bloody slaug n and the murder | duplicated in the United States was derided as an .in— e and .fl ‘u\\: 1g of women in Luzon was done by |sult to the Anglo-Saxon combination, through whicn | times | - command to carry out his inscrutable purpose | freedom and imperialism were to be forcibly identified f 1850, | b cending to those people the blessings of Christian | throughout the world. The Declaration of Indepen- id con- | ation! With such blasphemy it has pro- | dence was stirized as a presumptuous assertion of 5 - | oted a violent adventure foreign to the purpose of | principle, contradicted by universal fact. The consti- 1e OpPOT- | " Government, and in defiance of its fundamental | tution was described as a short under-garment, through which the limbs of Columbia were unduly edge to-day. ordered to do so. I want to tell you another thing that has just come to my knowl- Yesterday the quartermaster of the Oregon regiment went to the post quartermaster at the Presidio and requested to turn into him some extra clothing that he had which he did not want, but the Presidio quartermaster refused to receive it unless The Oregon regimental quartermaster then went “+ ed by the ap-| > exposed. The whole conception of an American re- public, limited in its territorial area to this continent and spreading the seamless folds of organized human sovereignty from sea to sea, was treated as a dyna- mitical explosion, of which even the echoes were dy- ing, as the blend of British imperialism and American democracy spread their rainbow hues over the Asiatic continent. things. t to know z If th , which hand directs our of in the Sulus? Is God v of the son of Mary or or Mahomet? rung with denunci- n-elect Roberts of Utah because, stom enjoined by his religion, he ch has a litter of children. The | e of Represent s has been ordered to refuse 1 t. Our Declaration of Independence say that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that The people now v d of God is'in all The it rough w In that ort to the c The verification of the anticipations of The Call has been unexpectedly rapid. No one doubts now that will take at least a hundred thousand men to drill | American principles into the hides of the Filipinos. | se of inde- iree wives and ez been eul | Hou him actical issues to Colonel Long, the depot quartermaster here, and wished him to receipt for a lot of clothing that he had on hand and for which he had no further use—clothing that the Oregon troops had taken to Manila and brought back here with them. One of the items in this lot of clothing which the Oregon quartermaster wanted to turn in was SEVEN HUNDRED OVERCOATS, besides a lot of blankets and other clothing. : While the President has ordered me to see that these men are supplied with all the clothing necessary for their comfort, he has not ordered a gratuitous issue; and to make sure that the men were properly supplied in accordance with ihe President's wish, and FORMBRE hdrew | 2 primary clec- d upon precinct repre- o legislative subdivisions of the orresponds to the s as well mary election Iz nd fu But the deeper has still to be 1en the primary k their duties Republ If, ont the ed upon this year cal history, that success at the nent in the prac that men to whom office sacrifice must consent to o be nominated e the inducing hire, but that 1d fattened on poli- upport, has been n of Ar of his erican lected no second-class candidate be 1Ryl r their own interests, ts with the ess men, who which e respec interests of the the nec oft a duty to accept ynal inconvenience and diminution of income and s possible for a local Re- 1 1ed in'San Francisco so per- t is demanded especially this charter is about to take effect. the sincere hope that the quality 1 hefore the municipal convention may to be impregnable. Sra 1 by refusals of prominent and unassail- to stand for office. naining important point in the municipal convention is the selection of a2 Central Committee to T -nt of the contest will be confided. lection is part of the ordinary business of a pal convention, but it is usually slighted. Tt is precisely to this fact that the obtrusion of corruption- ists, or mere boss or monopoly agents, is due, and, even though in other respects the respectability and the strength of a party has been vindicated, it is sunk in popular estimat by the impurities and by the weaknesses of its governing authority. Against this tendency to failure it is now essential to throw out which tt This mun: hagen invulnerable safeguards. in the delegates to the convention, in the nominees and in the Central Committee, as standing upon the higher levels of Republican politics and voicing the strong forces of the community, and suc- cess at the polls will be assured, and there will be a clean and an efficient Republican administration of the municipal government under the new charter. The Call will endeavor to combine and to harmonize the efforts of all good citizens for the improvement of ‘local conditions and to drive bosses and corrup- tionists of every description into the obscurity from which they ought never to have emerged. The des- tiny of San Francisco is too great and her material and commercial supremacy too close to justify the further toleration of boss or of monopoly domination. respondenc ° | cease and the whole land be ire cal reform now | that when a first-class con- | y of recog- | Let there be absolute cor- | d equal and endowed with ¢ rich are life, liberty and the this equali .incoln made ¢ happiness. He declared 1e. if slaver on and Dixon’s line were per- mitted to own slaves, the same right must be extended an north of that line, or else slavery must to eyery and every man be other 1an made equal in all his rights with every in the South and polygamy Nation in Utah. With that which is the gift of men inspired by prin- first Government ciples, the founders of the Republican party in i rm denounced those “twin relics of bar slavery and polygamy.” What man would have dared foretell that the Republican party, consecrated by and rism, Lincoln to equality of all men under the flag within the jurisdiction of the republic, utterance to the extirpation o ry would ever compel the submission of subject races, and without even the consent of Congress take the and polygamy of the taxpa Itan and get his ash to restock it and pror em under our flag by furnishing sing to protect it in { right has this insular stallion to a Roberts has not seraglio, but el What bette rem than has Roberts of U | ked the taxpayers to subsidize | maintains it at his own expense. What has the imperialist pulpit to say in the pre- mises? The people are going to have something to say, and 20 on the Republican party will be their e. When the old farmer goes home at the | his | | if matter: | mouthp close of his day’s toil and is met by his wife, made | | plain by a life of labor, they think of their son gasp- ing in the Philippine hell and wonder why they are | called to give him up and at the same time spare out of their scant e: gs money to gewgaw the women | of the harem of the Sultan of Sulu! They have been content with each other. Their romance rises ~and | tints the shimmer of the twilight. They have earned | their bread in the sweat qf their faces and belie in God and their country. Let the pulpit make them | believe that the same God and Government is en- | forcing eternal justice by sending an American to jail | |in Utah for having two wives while indorsing poly- gamy in the Sulus and taxing them to subsidize it. When the pulpit has'done this it can prove that Christ and Belial, God and Mammon, are one, and that truth and lies are interchangeable. THE USUAL THING. | | | | | EPORTS from Indi concerning the i R international of the Epworth League, which is to begin its sessions to-day, are to the effect that two delegations from California | arrived early on the ground—one from San Francisco | and one from Los Angeles—and it is added, “These delegations represent two factions that are contending | for the meeting-place in 1001.” It thus appears that in this contest the usual thing is to happen. The delegates from each of the other napolis convention ithc convention for some city of their State, but Cali- | fornia will be divided, and one faction of her delega- | tion will work against the other. That sort of thing is so frequent the repetition of it | ir this instance will cause no surprise. It is none the | less to be regretted that it occurs. The Epworth } Leaguers of the State ought to set an example of harmony and co-operation rather than to follow the old precedents of sectional divisions and factional an- tagonisms. If all the delegations from the State work | is almost a foregone conclusion some other State will bear away the prize. | Los Angeles has just entertained with success and | with credit to herself the National Educational Con- vention, and is therefore eager to undertake the en- tertainment of a greater convention still. That is hatural, and yet it is by no means well advised. The were to tolerated | and by its high | rs to subsidize a polygamous | | States will be united and will work together to obtain | | together the chances of bringing the convention to | California will be good, but if they remain divided it | They are an obstinate as well as a numerous people. When we were disarranging the artistic periection of King George’s wig they were confronting the im- maculate symmetry of Spanish chivalry. And now, in 1809, they absolutely refuse to acl our purchased chattels, and in the face of our per- sistent cffort to impress them with the necessity of unconditional surrender to our canonical boom of American civilization thrust our own sentimental declarations into our faces and ask whether our in- dependence was a joke or a reality. The situation is really peculiar. If climate, soil, race and all the other elements of Asiatic imperfec- tion are actually to be conquered and subjected for- cibly to our institutions, as temporarily interpreted, an enormous increase of military force is imperative. | But, as The Call ventured to predict, the citizen sol- diery of our country have no stomach for a protracted work of subjugation. They have performed wonders of valor and of endurance. They have proved that intelligent citizenship can overcome almost mountable obstacles. the Tagals, the Viscayas, the Negritos, the Malays and the Mahometans, who constitute the mixed population of our most recent colony, dependen | territory, acquisition, or by whatever other name it may be called, riles their good red American blood, and they unquestionably prefer to be relieved and to | return to their prosaic occupation of developing | American civilization on the continent which has been impressed with the signet of American liberty and in- dividuality. Naturally the imperialists have turned to the Ameri- can troops of African descent. If they would only cheerfully assume the task of subjugation the deac Roman parallel would be complete. But they dis- sent. They remember the Civil War, with all its an- tecedents. They have been filled with the magnificent | eloquence of Abraham Lincoln, of William H Seward, of Salmon P. Chase, of the great founders tand leaders of the Republican party. They have un- patriotically omitted to forget that by a proclamation, constitutionally enforced, liberty and equality were made a universal heritage within the bounds of this | republi And, while they enjoy and flourish under American institutions, thus developed to their logical result, they object to disparage the theory they love | by practices they abhor. They are men and patriots, and they will do their duty. But they would greatly prefer to recognize in the Filipinos the same ties of ihum:m brotherhood that have indissolubly united them to their Caucasian fellow citizens. To the ordinary human mind the Philippine situa- iti(m is perplexing. The only possible solution has been suggested by the Examiner, the organ of fusion | Democracy, the wholesale and retail dealer in “na- | tional policies” and in detailed hysteria. Let Major insur- But the work of assimilating ;Gcncrn] Otis be replaced. If President McKinley | should inadvertently sce the editorial letter that has been addressed to him and should act upon it, the problem would be solved. Meanwhile, however, the American people are deeply interested in the question whether we live in a republic or are on our way to empire. | | | | | | B — The scandal at the Agnews Insane Asylum inclines | the official investigators to believe that there has | been a looseness of administration in the institution. | Perhaps an application of tar and feathers might make some of the attendants more rigid. | Perhaps it will not concern ex-Secretary Alger | greatly that in resigning to fight trusts from the out- side he has added the offense of ingratitude to the rest. It is not beyond precedet that Satan, being detected, | should rebuke sin. If the esteemed Examiner would only wrap itself | in one of those army overcoats the stubborn boys | from Oregon will persist in not buying for themselves it might meet the cold jeers of an unfeeling populace with a great deal more comfort to itself. 7 The manner in which the Shamrock is putting it all | over the Britannia must be gratifying to the Irish. knowledge that they | | i efeefeefeefeedrefored - Colonel 0. Summers, Com the health of your men. that there was no neglect, the colonel of the Oregon regiment was instructed to give thematter hisattentioninthe following order: Headquarters, Department of California, San Francisco, €Cal., July 17, I899. manding Oregon Volunteer Camp: The de- partment commander directs that you make necessary requisitionat once for such clothing and supplies as may be needed to preserve Please acknowledge receipt. BABCOCK, Assistant Ad jutant-General. Government property is never loaned nor given away except in exceptional cases, such as a yellow fever epidemic or a disastrous flood, or some great calamity where many families are left desti- tute, and in such cases Congress afterward makes the necessary appropriation to cover such extraordinary expenditures. oo HERE are some things even the| | President of the United States may not do, and one of these is to vio- | late the law. It is written in army | regulations that no clothing shall be issued to troops without being charged up against each man’s clothing llowance, and the President can no more change this than he can suspend the right of trial by jury. It iz a law absolute and comprehensive and made to protect the millionsof dollars’ worth of property han- dled by the military establishment, and | not even the Examiner, capering solemnly | in its cap and bells and dimming the fires of the crematory with its tear-dampened | pages, can change it. It is perhaps be-| cause it knows it cannot change matters ! that the journalistic vacuum howls so | loud and characteristically and demands | at columns’ lengths the Presidential ear. | When the vclunteers of Oregon came here from the Philippines they were made | welcome, and every one saw in them a body of men entitled to respect and fair treatment, a regiment that had won honor and was going home with its own glory. | It.remained with the Examiner, however, | to find in them a medium for advertising | | itse}f, and it has set about the task with | | & will. It has placed the regiment in the | position of a lot of mendicants wasting | | away in the cold breezes of the Presidio while within reach of their hands but un | der lock and key are piles of overcoats | | and blankets which the Government re- | fuses to fssue. If the Examiner had any | | intention of fairness it would have ac-| | knowledged the position of the Govern- | | ment and admitted that McKinley as well as itself knew something of the limits of | his office: that the men of the Oregon regiment were coatless because they | wished to save the price of the overcoat not because the Government would not al low them to draw one; and it might have | learned, too, that the men were quietly | providing themselves with extra under- | clothes, which would do them in civil life | las well as in camp. But In this course | lay no opportunity for self advertisement, | | and so the guests of the city, the men en- | titled by all rules of hospitality and senti- | ment to the best treatment the press and | public can give them, were hustied into | the Examiner's band wagon while the| | Examiner gave tongue of its own worth. | | General Summers was interviewed, Gen- | | eral Miles was interviewed, the President | | was inter: -wed, army officers here and in | | Washington, heads of departments and | | prominent citizens all were led into the | journalistic pen of the Examiner and were! | quoted to show, not how cold were the| | Oregon men even from an Examiner standpoint but what a wonderful piece of | | paper and ink the Examiner was. The | | Red Cross Society was appealed to in one | | of those hysterical, inexpensive Examiner | appeals, and when the soclety was found | to have been working on the same ques- | tion rizht along the Examiner promotly | | shoulders and fill the air with its br put the ladies upon its staff and claimed the glory of their work. It will claim the glory won by any one, if it can only get a person to read its columns and believe what he has read It would share with the volunteer the only reward he has for his hardships—the luster of his own courage, but it will win no fame for itself; it prefers rather that some one else finds the work and the worry and wins renown, and then, like the his old man of the sea, it will mount 1t would be all right if the regiment were out in a summer camp, having laid aside the arts of peace for a week or two, but in this case the victims are volunteers coming home to rest and security. They have braved the hardships of war and the ravages of disease; they should not now have to stand the self-seeking “friendship” of the Examiner. They have earned the gratitude-of decent peo- ple; they should not be subjected to the humiliating position the Examiner is will- ing to place them in to help in its wild hunt for another subscriber. They need a rest. It would be only charity to pay the Examiner what it hopes to gain by all its excitement and then tell it to keep quiet, for there are more volunteers com- ing. In his statement to The Call, published ver his own signature, General Shafter gives a clear outline of the position of the Government in the matter of clothes for its men. It is so plain it needs only to be read, and there can be no gainsay- ing it. The Government never could and never intended to issue clothing gratui- tously, and neither General Miles nor any | one else ever said the Government would do so. The clothing is there for the- men if they wish to draw it. If they do not wish to do so, let the Examiner turn its vind batteries on something else and let the volunteers alone. The Red Cross Soclety has taken the question of clothing the volunteers into its own hands, and the first instaliment of overcoats purchased by the Society was loaned to the Oregon Regiment y terday. More will be forthcoming tu- ay. The coats will be issued on the re- ceipt of the men and before they leave camp they will be expected to turn them back to be used by other incoming volun The action of the Red Cross Society was taken after it was seen that the Gov- ernment was powerless in the matter, and its effect is not to provide the men with anything the Government cannot or will not furnish them, but to save them the price of such articles, as it would be de- ducted from their pay if they drew the clothing in the regular manner. Offi- cers and men are glad the matter has been settled in this way., hava become tired of being piaced in the light of mendicants. As one officer ex; it vesterday, “the Government has much power’to issue twenty-dollar picc from the mint as to issue clothing gratu- itously,” and this the regiment has un- derstood from the beginning. The overcoats furnished the troops last | evening were purchased from the regi- mental guartermaster. THev have all stenciled with the name “Red .’ and they are the absolute prop- of the society. General Wartsield also renewed his offer of overcoats blankets to loan to the men, and it 1 ble his kindness may be taken ad- ntage of. It is _also announced that | thy will be no objection from depart- | ment headquarters the men provide | themselves with_civilian overcoats, al- | though General Summers says he would be sorry to see his men do so unless in cases of nect as fears it will weaken the = n, but he ob- and parade. seneral Joseph Whe Lieutenant Bolles, his aid, were ts of Colonel Freeman at the Presidio ye: They | were driven all over the res | saw everything of inter: in the works beyond handlzd for the general's | some *‘wind shots™ dynamite guns. General Wheeler had | luncheon with Colonel Freeman, at whose quarters he met several of the officers of given a salute of eleven ns y the men of Light Battery Third Artillery. General Wheeler was much impressed ith the strength of the harbor defenses and were fired from the | wi | of this port and the amount of labor and | money expended in bringing them to their | sent efficienc: He expressed himself being highly pleased with the post and everything he saw within it. Liéutenant Colonel E. H. Plummer ar- rived here yesterday from Vancouver bar- racks to inspect applicants for comms- sions from the Oregon regiment who wish to remain in the service. The regiment is entitled to three commissions and the lucky ones will be determined by Colonel Plummer upon their examinations and upon the recommendation they get from General Summers, their commanglng offi- cer, Lieutenant Colonel Randolph, Third Ar- tillery, has been ordered away on a trip through Oregon and Washington insearch of cavalry horses. He will buy three or four hundred before he returns. Captain Charles B. Roberts, Thirty- Infantry, U. 8. 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