The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1899, Page 6

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ENGLISH, Correspondent. | | | BRANCH OFFICF S—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open untll 930 o'clock. 200 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. €39 McAllister street. open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkln street, open until 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2391 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25|Bl Mission street, open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock, NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. | | AMUSEMENTS. | California—""The Fairy Godmother.” i lumbia—*“Brot Offi | Orpheum—Cur Fund Benefit, Thursday afternoon, Aug T Falka." rea Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon s strestsSpecialties. jullding, Oakland—Cakewalk This day, at o'clock, Turkish day, at 3 o'clock, Furniture, at 414 OUR HEROIC FIREMEN. h y field of battle was there ever displ a ( I more genuine than that exhibited by — the members of the Fire Department in re ades who w stricken down by the | e Grand Central Market during the sht. Had such fidelity of com- | diness to venture lite for the pur- | r that of another been shown in a strug- id the pomp and circumstance | s war the deed would be renowned through- | ild have been universal there wo ¢ attests the sterling manl 1 of the heroes who were involved in the| catastrophe. Those who were crushed and maimed | were not less heroic than th who risked death to the James McGivins, one of the first to be rescued, was dragged from under a pile of burning his hip broken and his face streaming m a scalp wound, but even in that suf- fellow sufferers, rescuer attending him he waved ed them to waste no time in mindis- did not s wer to save his comrade ht in the r while working in who, like ins. burning himself on t v lling timber and badly Yet he did not for a moment falter in his he-| To the men who begged him to retire and | assistance for his hurt he replied, “I nm: 11 right, boys, and 1 do not intend to leave here un- til I am satisfied there is no one else in the ruins.” | Deeds like these ennoble humanity. They attest | that the quality of heroism does ot need the stimulus of martial r the excitement of battle, to rouse | it at the call of duty. True valor shows itself wher- | needed and never fails in any emergency of life. | Iways in evidence in the hour and in the place | ger, and its deeds are as noble when performed | e inconsy service as when acted out be- | the world on some great battle-field with (hc’ ng ready to record it. the struck e Crowe, he rescue, was Tre cavy piece of seek medical sic, ever Tt ory stand 1 story of American life could be written | many brave, self-sacrificing deeds | fire as have been done in any other nerican endeavor. Neither the ad- | pioneers who in the early days drove out d subdued the wilderness, nor the sol- | ave won the victories of the re- | he scamen who have carried our ships | y sea under the heavens, have been it would lose done in figh partment of A ve the savages a diers who i war public, no over every more valiant or more faithful than the men who form | the fire service of our cities and protect us from dan- | which the inflammable condition cof many of ou ngs render continually menacing. e e e . ge T An ordinance has been introduced by the Town neda to compel the display after dark | ps on baby-buggies tionable on the ground that it is class legislation, but it gives the that the beautiful ameda are thawks. | : | Trustees of Al This is not onl objec- ssion use s of A few months ago over at Oakland a young man i ung woman, both b Now | ¢ appealed to the Alameda Supervisors for they cannot see their way clear to exist blic charity. nd, were married. lksraad has resolved to send to the Bril sion a refusal of the invitation to par- joint conference. In other words, the | d to stand pat and refuse to stand Johnny | { Th day in June?” It will be unnecessary to ask it | he Goverhor appoints some day in August as | "Volunteers’ day.” an - dispatches are to port in Hayti for Jiminez. If the Haytians do their duty they will make him sherry, = | bert took his examinations successfully and | him by the Christian cade | he kept up with his lessons and ¢ | public, had their origin in hatred of the Jews. | This honorable rule seems to be ignored at | military off across Siberia to the Asiatic coast. the effect that there is no | to be done over again before WEST POINT JEW BAITING. SMAN BROSIUS of Lancaster, Pa., GRE chairman competitive examination and go home by the ceaseless physical abuse put upon A Pleb at West Point must fight a few times. It is a part of the mettle-trying process of the military school, and is winked at by the authorities. But whea a Pleb has proved his courage in a couple of mills the pranks and persecutions which compel him to fight But in Albert's case there was no ces- 1 at dr insulted and pursued, ntered into to wear himn vsually cease. He sation was tripp and a regular conspiracy wa out. He is a young feliow of fine physique, and if the usual course had been pursued with him wotld re found no difficulty in sustaining the trying ex- But whether He sent him to the hospital, but ge Finally, pericnces common to the new cadets he whipped or ipped made no difference fought some m in spite of the daily trial of his ter and cc mper work. when he was just out of hospital after a battle that disabled him, he was set upon by an Irish cadet, and in his weakened state being incapable of a stout de- fense was brutally pounded into insensibility. After being somewhat restoréd in the hospital, foreseeing ired persecutors could wear him re- that his several hunc out and cause his failure in class standing, he signed and went home. Two other Jewish cadets, Affel of New York and Huntzler of Baltimore, have been driven out of West Point this year in the same way, though they do not seem to have sustained the unequal battle as long as Albert did. Congressman Brosius has been notified of the resignation and vacancy, but has taken no steps in the matter. As each of the three Jews who have been driven out of the Academy won his ap-| pointment in a competitive examination, scholastic 7 | and physical, and was not the beneficiary of favorit- ism, the case is one of peculiar hardship. It is of in- terest to San Francisco, because a bright young Jew, who has already seen military service, we believe, has been appointed to West Point Kahn's district from Congressman The recent distressing scandals in the French army, which for a time threatened the stability of the re- C tain Dreyfus is a Jew, and in the invention of a case ¥ to destroy him by for- against him and the conspira y and perjury the whole motive was racial and re- ge ligious. Unfortunately, the civil government of France, aware of this conspiracy in military circles, re the influence of the army and ly brought to pass a revolution the destiny of weakly cowered b by its cowardice nea that would have reversed France That a similar moral disease should become en- army must be more than It must be prevented. There is no man- American and praise- political demic in the United State: deplored hood, courage nor anything | worthy in such a combination of numbers as seems to have been made against Cadet Albert. Among s | Indians if the victim ran the gauntlet once and lived his rights were respected and he had no further ordeal. Point, and the numerous young men being educated there for a salaried life at the expense of the tax- payers should be made to understand that such con- duct as is reported toward Cadet Alberr is regardec | as cowardly and unmanly to the last degree. The Jew cadet from San Francisco can sece what i3 | It is expected, also, by all of our people, of all creeds, that if a similar attack is made upon him Congress such ahead of him and should be prepared for it. man Kahn will initiate investigation as will demonstrate whether the military cadets of this coun- try are to be permitted to class Jews and negroes to- gether and deny to both the right to the advantages and training of the Academy. The Jews are numerically weak this country, numbering but little more than half a million in a population of seventy-five millions. But the constitu- tion guarantees to them absolute equality of right be- fore the law try he should be as safe as if the armics of the princely Maccabees were here to enforce his rights. We have just made a finish of Spain, but her downfall began when in the flush and high tide of power greater than we now have she turned upon the Jew in precisely the 1e spirit that inspires the disgraceful and cowardly acts of the West Point cadets. e e in 1f there were but one Jew in the coun- Six firemen were injured Wednesday night at the Grand Central Market fire. An advertising fence that rears its ugly height twelve feet above the roof was directly responsible for their injuries. By rea- son of the fact of its presence the firemen could not work properly from the street and had to gé into the burning building. They were fortunate they were not killed—no thanks to the owners of the advertis- i Sim accidents from similar causes are liable to occur at any fire. The Fire Commissioners should take some means to preserve the lives of their men. THE SIBERIAN R@AILROAD. APTAIN VASHIRO, a naval attache of the Japanese legation at St. Petersburg, is reported to have stated in a speech at a recent banquet at Tokio that in his judgment Russia will eventually abandon the great undertaking of constructing a rail road across Siberia. He describes the difficulties in the way as being well nigh insuperable. Siberia, he says, suffers from severe cold weather for more than half the year, yvet the work of construction was hur- riedly pushed forward when the ground was frozen. When warm weather came in the spring the ground thawed and gaps were made in the line. At some places the joints of the rails were broken. There are many reasons why a Japanese would not look favorably upon the Russian project. The wish father to the thought, and the statesmen and the ials of Japan most certainly wish Russia may never be able to provide a means for the rapid transport of troops and military and naval It is quite prob- able, therefore, that the views of Captain Vashiro have been colored and distorted to some extent by his national prejudices. That the road does not give satisfaction has long been known, but some investigators attribute the de- fects not so much to any insuperable difficulties of the | country traversed as to the negligent or fraudulent | ™3Y find collusion between police and criminals. It manner in which the contractors have done their work. British papers have given much closer atten- tion to the work than our own, and the London Mail e question has often been asked, “What is rarerl recently quoted a St. Petersburg correspondent s | clone of public opinion cut the political sausage saying: “In the first place, the different works have been executed in a manner that shows very little con- science. Everything, or nearly everything, will have the authorities can think of throwing open this.gigantic line to regular working. In very many places the road gives way | Island are in revolt, of the Committee on Claims, in a | happening. More than usual courage is demanded of appointed Sigmund any one undertaking a journey on this railway. This Albert, a Jew, to a cadetship in West Point. Mr. Al- construction a la Russe has already swallowed up hun- ranked | dreds of millions of rubles, or, to speak more truth- well in his class, but has been compelled to resign | fully, the constructors and not the construction have . TAX SHIRKING EXTRAORDINARY. West | stores | | on the passage of a train a little heavier than usual | or traveling at a speed of more than twenty miles an hour, and accidents more or less grave are continually absorbed the millions. People are beginning to ask how it will finish.” There is, however, another side to the story. Ac- cording to reports made by American Consuls the | defects in the road are due solely to an unwise | economy practiced in the original construction. It was not foreseen that any great traffic would be car- ried on over the road, and consequently the roadbed and the rails are inadequate to the immense pressure which has been put upon them. Some statistics of the traffic of the road are given by Consul General Holloway at St. Petersburg and are published in the Consular Reports for July. 3y these it is shown that the business of the road is increasing with great rapidity. In 1896 the western scction carried 160,000 passengers and 379,000,000 pounds of freight, while in 1898 the number of pas- sengers had increased to 330,000 and the freight to over 1,000,000,000 pounds. The central section, which in 1806 carried 15,000 passengers and 36,000,000 pounds of freight, carried in 1898 300,000 passengers | and 393,000,000 pounds of freight. The extraordinary development of the traffic has | been too much for the ill-ballasted roadbed and the | light rails used in the construction of the road, and | accordingly travel over it is by no means pleasant or speedy. There appears, however, to be nothing in the | situation to justify Captain Vashiro’s prediction that Russia will eventually abandon the undertaking. On the contrary, Consul General Holloway reports that heavier rails are being laid, sidetracks are being put in, and $40,000,000 is to be expended in developing | the traffic by the construction of branch lines. The authorities at Washington affect to think that | Commander St. John of H. M. S. Peacock did not know what he was talking about when he spoke dis- paragingly of General Otis. Come to think of it, the Washington authorities may be correct. Otis is a conundrum too deep for the average British intel- lect. | HE so-called “war revenue law” was passed by [ Tlegrcss in June one year ago. Among other ; | schemes for producing revenue it provided for | | a tax of one cent upon each and every package trans- ported by inland railroad, steamboat and express companits. The agents and employes of these cor- porations were required to affix to all receipts, bills of lading, manifests or other evidences of the con- tract of carriage a revenue stamp of the denomination | stated, the cancellation of such stamp constituting the payment of the tax. All over the country the express companies un- patriotically refused to pay the tax. They took ad- | | vantage of an absurd ambiguity in the wording of the | | statute to contend that the shipper and not they should affix and cancel the stamp. One of the chief and most insolent offenders in this regard was Wells, Fargo & Co. of this city, whose illegitimate revenues from the people of California—upon whom it has foisted the | payment of this tax—have been estimated at $10,000 a month. In July of last year a suit was brought in the | Justices’ Court against the company for damages. In | that case the Justices’ and Superior Court in written opinions held that the law plainly compels the express | companies to pay the tax. Judge Tuley of the Il- | linois Circuit Court had previously made a similar | returning with the Colorado regiment. Medal Presented to Each Member of the Peace Conference. HE medal is of gold, and depicts on one side th I Pax Populis.”” On the other side is the peace ‘which is written; e angel of peace, with the words branch, surrounding a tablet on Conference Internationale, pour la palix universelle. La Hague, Mai-Juin, 1899, AROUND THE CORRIDORS Rev. Father F. W. Goodman is a guest at the Occidental. H. A. Alexander of Watsonville is reg- istered at the Lick. James McCudden, the Vallejo contractor, |. 18 n guest at the Grand. W. L. Woodrow, a leading merchant of | San Jose, s a guest at the Palace. W. A. Thacker, a wealthy mine-owner of Chicago, is a guest at the Palace. State Senator Dy A. Ostrom of Reeds is among the late arrivals at the Grand. D. C. Demorest, a mining man of Angels Camp, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. Dr. D. P. Durst of Wheatland is in town on a short pleasure trip. He is staying | at the Grand. L. W. Bond of Santa Clara is registered at the California, where he arrived yes- terday morning. Dr. P. N. Russell, one of the most prominent of Fresno's physicians, is reg- istered at the Lick. Among the arrivals of yesterday at the | Lick was Charles Ryland, the San Jose | banker and capitalist. | F. B. Smallwood, one of the leading | citizens of Stockton, is among the recent | arrivals at the Palace. | T. O. Toland of the State Board of | Fqualization is registered at the Lick from his home in Ventura. T. J. Flanigan, the owner of the big| lumber mills at Eureka, is at the Grand for a limited stay in the city. ; George L. Carr, a wealthy mining man and capitalist of Carrsville, is among vesterday's arrivals at the Russ. W. A. Morton of Newark, N. the Palace with his son on a visit business and pleasure to the coast. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shortridge and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wallace, of this ctiy, are among the recent arrivals at Byron Hot Springs. Judge A. B. Copeland, one of the lead- ing citizens and most prominent attor- neys of Greeley, Colo., is at the Russ on a visit to the coast. Adair Wilson of Denver is at the Occl- dental with his wife and daughter. He | comes to welcome home his son, who s | s at | D{i Professor William Marritt Thrasher has resigned the chair of mathematics at Butler University, Indiana, which he held for thirty vears, and is en route to | the Pacific Coast, where he will reside permanently. For many years he and Dr. Jordan of Stanford were associate professors. Vice President J. C. Stubbs, Traffic Pas- senger Manager B. O. McCormick and Willlam Sproule, freight traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company, who have been East for the last few weeks attending the meeting of the immigration ruling. Later in the year the Michigan Supreme | Court took the same view of the law. In fact, up to | date no respectable legal authority has been found to | | declare that this tax-shirking corporation has a Xcgall leg to stand upon. ' Shortly before the expiration of his term of office Attorney General Fitzgerald applied to the Superior | | Court of this city for a writ of mandate to compcl1 Wells, Fargo & Co. to stamp its receipts. The cor- | poration promptly removed this proceeding to the| | Federal courts. After a long delay Attorney General | Ford argued the matter and Judge Morrow wilhouti hesitation remanded the case. This was two months | ago. The Attorney General has not since been heard from. Whether he has actually taken the proceeding back to the State tribunal or whether he intends to | | further prosecute it nobody knows. While the people | | of California are waiting for Mr. Ford to act, how- | ever, they are being robbed by Wells, Fargo & Co. of about $10,000 a month. The Attorney General may not regard this as a | | consequential matter, but we think he will discover | before long that, however trivial it may seem to him, in the public eye it is a subject of momentous im- | portance. If every man who patronizes Wells, Fargo | & Co,, and who in consequence is held up for one | cent, can be made to realize that the robbery is per- petuated mainly through the neglect of the chief law | officer of the State to do his duty, Mr. Ford may find | later on that his inactivity from a political viewpoint will be rather costly. In October last two suits were brought against Wells, Fargo & Co. by individuals named Johnson | and Benham, for damages. These actions have been ‘[ twice taken to the Federal courts by the corporation | and are now pending before Judge Morrow on mo- | tions to return them to the State courts. On the | last occasion they were removed on grounds which | are a positive insult to the intelligence of the United | States Circuit Judge. In that proceeding Wells, Fargo & Co. claims that it is a collector, instead of a shirker, of Federal taxes, and that, therefore, it is | cntitled to have its fleecing operations attended to by | the United States Circuit Courts. Judge Morrow A;has once decided that he has ng jurisdiction to try ! actions brought against this express company in the | State courts unless the amount sued for exceeds $2000, and vyet, for the purpose of delaying litigation | and prosecuting its tax-shirking, the corporation }cnntinues to abuse the process of the courts and in- | sult the intelligence of the Judges. But there is no excuse for the Attorney General. | | It is his duty to bring this tax-shirker to terms, and \if he faithfuolly discharges it he can produce results | ‘ within a month. - The question is not one of law, but | | one of preventing delay. | A B T Y S The Mazet Committee, which is investigating cer- tain robberies in the New York tenderloin, thinks it | | | | would better look for it under some other name— | rake-off, for instance. Tuesday was a tough day on the bosses. The cy- binding Rainey to the Examiner, the Bush street boss l flying off at a tangent into oblivion. Buckley is also | out of sight. 3 | Notes of discord are plainly audible in the “typical | Son_of San Francisco is at the Vendome. tune of Zanzibar.” The people of Great Comoro bureau and looking after other interests of their road in New York and elsewhere, are expected to arrive home about a week | from next Saturday. They are now en| route, traveling in their own private car over the iines of the Sunset route. e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Dr. M. Krotz- meyer and wife of San Francisco are at the Holland. Charles Meclver, Stephen Meclver and J. McCrosson of San Fran- cisco are at_the Imperial. Virginia Jack- J. S. Blakeslee of San Francisco and C. S. Stover of Oakland are at the Cosmo- politan. — e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Miss Victoria Ord of San Francisco is at the Welling- ton; William A. Dunn of-San Francisco s at the Raleigh; Colonel John P. Irish of San Francisco is at the Johnson. = e To Down the Charter. The briefs In the appeal case of M. F. Fragley against the Board of Election Commissioners and the Registrar of Vot- ers were filed In the Supreme Court yes-| terday. This is the action brought for the purpose of proving that the new char- ter is mot legal. The action was to re- strain the officials mentioned from hold- | ing the primary election just passed and | the election in November. The points | made in the brief are practically the same as presented heretofore, e e Chances for Volunteer Labor. Editor of The Call-Dear Sir: I have noticed in The Call lately a communica- tion from the secretary of the Federation | of Labor and the different Governors ob- | jecting to the mustering out of soldiers at San Francisco on account of flooding | the labor market. I want to say to you, for your infor- mation and for the benefit of the com- munity generally down here, that good labor is very scarce, particularly that which is accustomed to working in quar- ries or tunnels. We cannot get what we want, and Redlands and that vicinity is drawing all that they can get, Los Angeles not being able to supply them. Yours_tzuly, . E. S. BABCOCK. San Diego, Aug. 87 1899 - eee——— The Call’s Rig Samoan Scoop. Chicago Post. The joint Samoan commission has agreed upon fundamental reforms and has preparéd an elaborate report upon the conditions of the islands and the neces- | sity of amending the Berlin treaty. The report, it appears, has not yet been sub- mitted to the three Governments con- cerned, yet it was made public vesterday at San Francisco by The Call. How that | newspaper obtained it is not explained, and it is obvious that somewhere a breach of propriety was committed, Neverthe- less. as the authenticity of the document is unquestioned, the people will be inter- ested in its contents. e | MINGLING DIVERGENT MANKIND. Can the Contact of Two Races in the Philippines Result Benelici- ally to Either? P To the Editor of The Call—Sir: The position of your journal in opposing the permanent retention of the Philippine Isl- ands by the United States Government is one that should commend itself to the good sense and prudence of every Amer- fcan who being sincerely patriotic desires the real and permanent welfare of his nation, and not merely the tinsel glory of defeating and subjugating a people vastly inferior to our own in numbers, wealth and clvilization. Pastriotism does not mean that American citizens shall be slavishly subservient to temporary leaders or to official representatives, but only that we shall honestly strive to ac- complish what we sincerely believe to be for the nation's greatest permanent good. The problem involved in the subjuga- | | tion and retention of the Philippines is not one of mere political partisanship. I am now and have been for more than twenty years an active member of the Republican party, but I do not conceive that it is my duty to defend or uphold the tendencies of those members of my party who have advocated the acquisi- tion of new territory without careful con- sideration of the race, civilization and general character of the people who in- habit it. In considering the problems fnvolved in what is_termed “expansion,’ the people of the United States should rise above mere partisan politics, for the result of their consideration and action | may have in the end a tremendous fin- | fluence upon the future of the nation, and upon the happiness of the existing population, or at least upon the welfare of their immediate successors. The problem of the Philippines may be discussed from various standpoints. I have selected for consideration in this| serfes of articles one feature of the ques- | tion which Is usually overlooked, but | which seems to me to be more important than those which customarily attract at- tention, and less capable of being d puted than other objections which are made to the retention of the islands. I| allude to’ the intermingling of races be- | tween which there exists no desire for| “Ain’t it jes' wonderful to fink all men.”" ‘Alo” wonderful ef dey had been laid by hen “Did you evah lay anything, Mista ™I laid my heart at your feet more'n once, Miss Jonsing.” ’ dem bricks in dat wall was lald by Rasmus?” l nor expectation of Intermarriage as 2 normal social condition, and to the evil results arising therefrom. A little reflection should teach any ob- servant person, especlally if he be famil- jar with history, that the non-existence of marriage beiween any two classes ot people inevitably acts as an insuperable obstacle to completely harmonious rela- tions. The most virulent hatred may at first exist’ between two families, tribes, clans, factlons, nations or even races, but if it does not extend so far as to prevent marriages among the young people 7. evil prejudl will disappear in a few generations and a complete amalgamation Wil be effected. The opposing clans be- come one peoplé brought together by the kindly efforts of Cupid among the young men and women. The consolidation of the Normans and Saxons in a notable instance of this principle, ai the early history of Europe is full of in- stances where nations have been built in this way from iation and inte marriage between disti tribes t originally hated one another with a bit ness comprehensible only to a barbarian of that period. 3 On the other hand, history also records abundant instances of the other proposi- tion that so long as intermarriage is for any reason not permissible the hostility cannot disappear, although it may be les- | sened as the entire people progress in that tolerance which | feature of re: of the Jews forms pr teresting commentar. They are of the Cauc have lived almost ex casians for centurie b : They refuse to in- harry with their associates, howeve notwithstanding ide tity of language, race and color, they have been hated and persecuted. T\ n all parts of the world the Jews as a class are disliked, and wherever they become very numerots they are persecuted. The ill will toward them exists not because of any defects in their character, but it is thé instinctive hostility which formerly existed between all clans and which can be entirely removed only by marriage and the complete amalgamation which results. In preserving their existence as a distinct people the Jews have also perpetuated the hatred against them, and both are due to the same cause—their refusal to intermarry with other people. The results arising from the contact of different races proceeds along these lines. 1f there exist between two races in con- tact no original antipathy which prevents intermarriage, hostility’ and ihe evils which arise from it are temporary, and a mongrel population soon arises in testi- mony of permanent declarations of peace. If antipathy to marriage exists no amal- gamation can occur and the condition is one of oppression or warfare. One race must subjugate the other or exterminate 1t Of all the branches of the Caucasian ce which have been brought into inti- mate association with other races the people of Northern and Central Europe, usually termed the Anglo-Saxons, and heir descendants have proved to be the least fitted for any approach to amalga- mation. In all parts of the world their approach to the darker races has meant extérmination or political slavery under the name of military domination. The tin branches of the race have shown a ightly greater degree of adaptability to amalgamation, involving a corresponding degree of harmony, and it is a well known fact in our history that the French and Indians or Spanish and Indians were in- variably allied against our forefathers of Anglo-Saxon descent. The Anglo-Saxons and their descendants have always exhib- itegd toward the lower races a harsh and unsympathetic character. There is not the slightest tendency toward the tolera- tion which has sometimes developed from contact of the Latins with these races, and the intermarriage of our people with other races as a general social result is not a thing that can occur unless existing standards of morality are abrogated. We have enslaved inferior races, we have ex- terminated them, but we have never in- termarried with them. The people of the United States have re- ceived in their comparatively brief his- tory as a nation three great lessons in these sociological principles, and the memory of the teaching should have im- pressed them seriously. They were given to us in blood and tears and groans; in sin and sorrow; in excruciating physical pain, in moral degradation, and in all that makes intelligent human beings ashamed of their own existence. The first of these lessons is the miser- able record of cur Indian wars from the time North America was colonized by Europeans. It is a record of cruel tor- ture and pillage on the part of the In- dians in their efforts to drive away the hated invaders, and of merciless revenge and destruction b the more powerful race. It is a story of women and children ined and scalped, of white men burned alive and of Indi shot down with less ret than i had been wolves. It 2 now nearly completed N I ing extermination of ihe Indians as tribal organizations and the apsorption of the few remnants into the great body of our population. And it is one that all of us would gladly ex- punge from the records of the nation if we could blot out "the history of our shame in that way. 1 shall avoid discussing the moral fea- tures of our Indian problem, now almost solved by the rapidly approaching termin: of the tribes. Our ar tors were most certainly robber invading the territory occu the Indians and driving it. The history of the is petition of similar ageres- populatio; ca. No - 3 onization of the Philippines by of the United States. If we p effort to mingle the white ra ¥ o the col- country with the brown men of these is s we will deliberately incur all t evils that have resulted from our contact bring unnec the Indian tribes a wit ily upon ourselves and our descend- the curses that invariably arise out of such a on. s of the United States are abundantl to sup- port a much gre: country now ma s; the }n\pul:\lim\ in the Philippines de_sity is neariy ur times as great as that of our own couniry; and even if we admit that it is i ble at times re new terri- tory regardless of es of occu- pants, that desirability does not appear in the present instance. The opinion of our volunteer soldiers who have returned ap- pears to be almost unanimous that ‘“the game Is not worth the candle.” The worth or worthlessn of the Phil- ippines, however, will ke no differenca in the evil results that are sure to follow occupancy and possession of the e the race contact cannot bs d. ad the aborigines of North America been of the Caucasian race or had no_antipathy toward marriage with the Indians existed among the whites when the country was colonized the evil results of continuous brutal warfare would not have occurred. Amalgamation ‘would have resulted in America as it did in England between the Normans and Saxons or in ancient Mexico between the various Indian tribes which were rapid- 1y consolidating into nation when Cor- tez invaded their try. Race contact invariably means “iptermarry or fight.” In our relations with the Indians we fought. GEORGE A. RICHARDSON. 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