The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 24, 1899, Page 6

1899. THE BIG PROBLEM. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 OUR CALIFORNIA SOLDIER BOYS ARE BACK. ALIFORNIA has a novel experience. Until the outbreak of the Spanish war she 1899 ‘THURSDAY..... ~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Pro S. LEAKE, Manager. e Address All Comm ns to ..Market and Third Sts., S. F Teler Main 1868. i EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874 ! PUBLICATION OFFIC DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. | Single Copies, 5 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: | PATLY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. ..$6.00 & Sunday Call), 6 month 3.00 unday Call), 3 months 1.50 63¢ 1.50 pf d when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... ..908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forcign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. K CORRESPONDENT | ~.eeo.. Herald Square PRESENTATIVE: ......29 Tribune Bullding NEW YOR €. €, CARLTO NE PERRY LU AGO NEWS STANDS. P. ws Co.; Great Northern Hotel; YORK NEWS S8TANDS. NEW Ast Hotel; A. Brentano, 21 Union Square; ‘Waldorf. Murray WASHINGTON (D. ....Wellington Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. 7 Montgomery street. corner Glay ck. 300 Hayes street, open untll 630 c'clock. 639 McAllister street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o’clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll I0 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, cpen untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. BRANCH OFFICES open until * and “T'Pagliaccl.” g upon a moral bas We sk define he s of courag n Maceo 1 Gomez 1 did they acquire tt 1 did th zht to at right of con shed e thes lom and inde- phy: moral ent to their govern ir independence, cal and our concern in 1d consent to government become 1en? ent 2 i-gove than it was nade them our “s and given us nd self-respect” by e a move toward se- cpendence which our Congress said ght? What has to depr! ht and make them rebels against us ? The Oregonian and those who loy the same language and back it s as that used by the butcher ons in the h: of Poland and by the Czar in the blow he has recently struck the Finns. When the Oregonian speaks in lofty phrase of the folly of civilized government resting on a moral basis,” consulting the wishes of a subject people, it means just as the Czar means, a strong Government resting upon a vast army and refusing to consult the interests of the weak whom it can crush. The lion does not consult the wishes of the lamb as to the dinner hour. * We don't know the definition of a moral basis for government which would please those who coolly prcpose to complete in Cuba the butchery that Spain began. It is supposed that the basis of right and wrong, the elementary definition of the two principles, may be found in the Bible, and that there the rights of the weak against the strong have some support. It is not new that the strong covet what belongs to the weak. “And Ahab spake unto Naboth saying, Give me thy vineyard that T may have it for a garden of herbs. And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. pleased. And Jezebel his wife said unto him”— when has any civilized Government resting on a moral basis submitted its policies to the determina- tion of an inferior or subject people?—“Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise and eat bread and let thy heart be merry. I will give thee the vineyard.” In the enforcement of this policy Ahab prevailed and Naboth was killed, as there was no other way of honor and self-respect for Ahab; and then came the prophet asking the king, “Hast thou killed and also taken possession? In the place where ned with the same reasc the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs | lick thy blood. even thine.” The day that a shot is fired in Cuba because those people rise for independence and self-government, which we solemnly said of right belong to them, will be a day of reckoning. The boys arrived twenty-four hours earlier than expected, but they do not find us unprepared. The welcome is ready for them. The standing watchword of the week is “Wel- come.” 3 | ] prietor. ’ And Ahab came into his house heavy and dis- ! had not the opportunity to appear by series of high actions at arms. tains that made a wide frontier between us that migh*y strugg duty of Cal to which t store of luxuries. ifornia. Without those California to the Golden Gate, and the wealth of our equipped t periods of balance. the war, have turned against us hat duty so well done saved to a military organization of her sons in any Her peculiar situation during the Civil War called | for all her military resources upon a far-stretched picket line, from which the intruder | was challenged and guard kept for the Union over the solemn deserts and frowning moun- No element in and the great battle fields. - contributed more to its successful result than this cheerfully assumed It was the guarding against invasion and alienation of a vast region, he nation has since resorted for its gilding of the precious metals and its sweet troopers who stood true to the flag which | they protected the Confederate line would have covered the country from the Rio Grande mines would have filled the treasury and 1e hard fighters of the Confederacy and perhaps, at any one of the critical the scale that was more than once on even the Union in military expenditure more than thirty millions of dollars, and if it also saved the Union how inestimable was its value! When the cry of men in despair and oppressor, ike a bugle call to duty in a humane war, thrilled American ard heel of the manhood, Cali- of women dying under the fornia sprang to arms and reported ready for service in a day. In the incidents of the Sp known the liberty for wl but if the country had called her to supply ish battle against the free aspirations of her cclonists all men suffered who had lich they died daily. her population, 1at brought the California is not dense in the full force of 17,000 men t Spanish war to a close they would have been under arms and on the march to where the foe lurked within a week. Her First Regiment of Volunteers drew the prize in the patriotic and her Seventh and Eighth regiments lay - purpose and chafing in thei and un to glory and the front. As the F tears of tho 1 he ringing measure that volleyed for miles the farewell of a péop burden of ‘going forth as a sacrifice that the soldierly 10 n held in 1 deeds that lorns a military organization. following justified it. The First i nd operate it, stri i and art ar ks of our volunteers. No duty req hour unprepared. They hono cath and t 3 as if born to the jungle. If an order were without If retreat sounded it rang upon d Equally when they fought and when knew how to live like sol was always cc ., wi ain. The To-day they are with us ag back. >m € heir coming home. ¢ of their feet sure there will be wailing ster of the dead is called and th 1 of honor. nd of the oppressor be struck from its wrist. ands on the « - them was fit to command, therefore all were qualified to ob: he deathly vertical sun above them they toiled and fought lottery of war for weeks under arms, cheris r war harness, waiting and hoping for orders st marched to take ship and sail away its path was sprinkled by the of its march was lost in the tempest of cheers le wrought to high fervor by the sight of men strangers might be lightened and the heavy expecta- 1 for the 1d capac- presence then has been kept. No y of that farewell was too hig California has shown every talent ar From its ranks stepped out men who could ng a military telegraph and not only guard s to war and useful in peace was represented ring their brave I | | uired in march, charge, siege and battle found | red their State by their soldierly initiative; With delayed they knew their duty and charged eaf ears as long as an enemy was in front. they fell they honored their State. State has risen in a passion of welcome to All that can express a feeling that may not all be uttered is done to Thousands are in a frenzy of delight to hear again the ng the path down which they marched away. As its notes rise and for the broken harmony. The ranks are not e answer comes in the last sigh from the far | | course. For these there is every delightful evidence of honor and gratitude; for those, memory and tears. To the hero, when his . Is drawn in battle for Death’s voice sounds And in its hollow The tha sword the free, like a prophet’s word, tones are heard nks of millions yet to be. REGDY FOR THE RECEPTION. never arrived They sooner find the people ready 1 such a reception as has accorded in C: to any igh their rank. UR boy with than wa 1 pec! et te been alifornia persor of visitors from a soon as The C ted t Je outburst of joy began, and will d intensity until the welcome cul- nphant cheers greeting the re- march through the streets nd decorations in their 1 been sig mcrease 1n vigor hates in loud, triu turning heroes as ti y made beautiful by a tho honor. The people of San Francisco have given unmis- ence of their patriotic regard for the re- They have contributed to the recep- ly the $50,000 asked for by the ex- ecutive committee, but many thousands more. In addition to the thus donated other large | 2amounts have been expended in private decorations oi i ts of the city. In fact, San Fran- | cisco is more radiant this week than ever in her his- tory, and the occasion will not only do honor to her 1 vclunteers but will reflect credit upon her citizens. | Now that the day of the reception is at hand the | people will feel more keenly than ever the wrong done | by the pettishness of the Governor in refusing to make | the day of disembarkation a public holiday. Thou- | sands of working men and women, whose patriotism | is not less strong than that of other citizens and who | would have had great joy in welcoming the troops, will be debarred from that pleasure by the Governor’s inability to sympathize with the patriotic aspirations | of the people, and no little indignation will be justly | felt with regard to it. | It is the duty of our municipal officials and of em- | ployers to do what they can to right the wrong. Let | us make a civic holiday as far as it is possible to do so. | The people have contributed freely to provide the decorations of the streets, the banquetssthe illumina- | tions, the fireworks, the concerts and the reception festivals in honor of the volunteers, and it is but right that all should have a share in the enjoyment of the great day. Rarely has a public enterprise of anything like equal magnitude been carried out so harmoniously or with such success as this. The executive committee merits the commendation of all for its energy and its zeal in the work. Everything has been arranged in order and completed in time. San Francisco is ready for her volunteers. They will enter the bay amid one of the finest naval demonstrations ever seen in American waters, and when they land their welcome will be all that the enthusiasm of the people can give. All hail our heroic brave! tak turning troops. cie sums buildings in all p | The patriotic impulses of the week ought to be felt in the municipal conventions and incling the dele- { gates to insist upon the nomination of true patriots on both tickets. oot | If the West Indian hurricane carried no good in its | progress, it at least gave the natives that are left | something to blow about for some time to come. | ————— | France seems to be suffering from an overplus of i plots. That's where she has the best of the average | American comic opera. Thousands | State are here, and | gave notice that the transport | | REED’S RESIGNATION. i o | RLL\IORS of many kinds concerning the prob- able course of Tom Reed have been rife ever ! since his return from E For some rea- | son he refused to state whether or no he would re- sign his sgat in Congress, and such statements as he made concerning political subjects inclined a good many people to believe that while he would not be a candidate for the Speakership he would remain in | Congress during the coming session for the purpose rope. | toward Cuba and the Philippines. To all such rumors he has now put an end by send- | ing his resignation of his seat in Congress to the Gov ernor of Maine. The strongest personal force in | American politics has retired from it, and the loss to the republic is much greater than it would be easy to tell. The recent development of American politics is such as to make conservatism in official station of the | highest value to the country. | been counted on to oppose all foolish schemes of im- perial annexation and foreign conquests just as reso- lutely as he opposed all wildcat money schemes, and it is for that reason his retirement will be deplored by intelligent men of all parties. A short time ago, in discussing the immigration problem, Mr. Reed is reported to have declared there | would be a grave inconsistency in shutting out immi- | grants from Europe on the score of their unfitness | for republican government and American citizenship while at the same time expending millions of treasure ‘iand thousands of lives in forcibly annexing to the United States islands of the Orient swarming with people even more unfit to assimilate with Americans i than any seeking admission as immigrants. By that statement he made clear his _appreciation of the menace of imperialism and inspired a hope that he would remain in Congress to fight it. The republic stands at the parting of the ways, with momentous issues depending upon the choice of | The retirement of Reed will therefore be noted with more regret, for Congress is to lose his leadership at a time when that leadership is perhaps more needed than ever. Fortunately, Mr. Reed’s retirement is not likely to be permanent. Other great statesmen have retired before. Henry Clay once left politics to go home “to repair his fences,” as he said, but it was not long be- fore he grew weary of farming and gladly profited by an opportunity to return to the Senate; Mr. Blaine alsg retired from politics at one time, but returned again. Many another statesman has done the same. 'Reed's retirement can hardly mean a cessation of his interest in politics. He will be always keenly alive to public questions, and in due season he will drop his law business in New York and return to the work for which nature fitted him and by which he can best serve the welfare of his country. The Call was first to announce to the city the ar- rival of the Sherman and thus once more demon- strated its superiority over its contemporaries in gathering and circulating news. There are no microbes on Admiral Dewey. At least he has refused to fly the yellow flag of the yel- 1low Journal onthe sea of politics. which road to take. It is a juncture that calls for the | service in official life of the ablest statesmen we have. | I | the bug: rejudiced and unth ing opponent 1d have the public As they | liers, like soldiers they knew how to die; as in their action there death came it was met with unmatched dignity. thing ?—x~ew York Herala, 'UNCLE SAM—Can’t something be done to put ® & @ @ @ T lieve it to be. ci POPOOPPPOPO SO @@ afford g pin try. 9k and numerous COMMUN[CAT]ONS o fof t v oill. One n aport city lik @ | would be impossible to POPOOOPOOOO PO PSSP | thinking man ¢ AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING. Call—Sir: The ue of your | O the Editor of Th ; endm article in this morning ST valuable paper anent the Ha an exp. Payne shipping bill, and th | produce ents attributed to the Comr 58, W That the controlling 1 blow at t ples of the measure are laid of his s & o ct lines cannot be successfully 2 wpitalist, the farm ame idment w 1 and laborer, in 5 s in the United or Ang ¢ ymm would_think it afford ercial center. eater inducement to our ship- try the enemies that such amely, that t £ % but one effect, d it may do so prevent it. X to be st a d pro meets steps e that foolish Congr should cuss it, as who was recently followed by cannibals, had died on one of the islands of the Pem- phyn group. MIDWINTER FAIR | The attendance at the Midwinter Fair as a man | ill introduced at | | master the intere d by the progress or otherw| ipping industry. The skeptic may it | ask why all classes are thus affecte o morley | but if he stopped to think for a momen thie bi? the answer would dawn upon him. We done the | are a great producing nation, we feed the ¢ without doing hungry of other nations with our farm good. |Ceiosiiod it - ;. : T uid not have studied the | products, and we are Crowding the|.frects of the measure as regards farm markets of the world with our surplus | produce manufactures, and yet while this is ad- The Hanna bill can be classed as a di- | m of our laws or the genius of our people as a progressive commercial matlon. | iy foreign ports cheape | While we are quick and enterp All this means most thirgs, yet in this one insta reaper freights, whic are sadly lacking, notwithstanding the ¢ object lesson taught us by the great CoOm- markets of the world mercial nations of the world, who for | "No Mr. Craig. you hav | years have give | ment to their m | have our shipping interests been cruelly is wi en other “countries shamel rect bou well as to the foreign ve most of peting our subs * ittedly true, nearly all our export trade carried in foreign bottoms and alwa ill be while we pursue our present We are thus finding profitable mployment for the capital and labor of to_ the exclusion and neglect of our own. not in keeping with the spirit be re This i me substantial encourage- chant marine. Too long the pro calculated to as duced n, is grievous blunder and s v to the farming interests as shipping. The bounty-fed that to-day are carrying foreign trade will be com- share of our trade even after zed vessels are running. %he freight he the vho one ncreased profits h means greater tage over competitors in the foreign committed a affected e of 2 measure so well t an important but per- is it by this competition, as it him to land his farm produce r than he can do so | | | | | | neglected. No other interest or industry & > | has been permitted to languish and al | 'Shing industry, and the only way by most perish for want of that kindly as- | ¥ HCR VOV €S0 FER0 L R € amend- nce which has been accorded to other CAUSIME JRC WICHTEHS B F e so. then industries of infinitely less importance. € SR SN haonla of this city The argument that ?men an pluckl ul{ s ear Gty 4 Sl = enterprise are equal y and a - s INO emergencies willy not c. Private e Sl D er rise, be it ®ver so energetic and <§J i ST AR e willing, ua[nnnzh sucee Isfu!l_\' compete i | San Fra g carrying freight and passengers wit | heavily subsidized lines. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | Thus it is that the American ship- | than the Hanna-Payne bill of taking part in shaping the policy of the country | unprecedented impetus to one of our most Mr. Reed could have | huilder is forced to retire. and unreasonable to expect men to build year: The passage of this! BUCKLEY s fhe profitable employment of o both capital and labor. It will give an It is foolish Valley, Cal. 1d man vessels and run them at a loss - y certainly are when brought into | & premium coln. cempetition with the government | I ted vessels of other nations. more just or meritorious measure has engaged on bf Congress during the past millions of Fifty one-half feet squa re. BLINDNESS—G., dness of Christopher Buckley n gradually. -1t was in 188§ that NOT A PREMIUM COIN—L. & G., Mill 25-cent piece of 1818 fs not IN GOLD—Engquirer, City. dollars, solid mass, would make a cube five and if cast into a City. came totally blind. abOriad but madly neg oiise inghaies, | Do Decams tolany s It will cheapen ocean fares and freights, CASUALS-J. F. D., Fresno, Cal. For .”}",,g"'a“‘,z,‘::? 11;‘:?!%“1‘;“ information about any one in the casuals 5 RUCERT oW e Presic idress Captain Hardin, | g commercial nation. It wild thrill the Aat the Presidio ac o v sart of ever: American who goes abroad ' adjutant of the casuals, Presidlo, San | e floating tecting folds from many ~mastheads the ports of the world. cruiting ground from | man-o’-war'smen. ) see the flag of his Francisco, Cal. _ ! country proudly in_the breeze, waving its pr in we are undoubtedly going to have a ificent navy, a splendid and efficient nt marine is the best possible re- | which to obtain No amount of spe-| FESTETICS-S 26th of September, clous argument can wipe out this fact. ) ngland depends upon her merchant ves. | Francisco papers, | sels to supply her navy with trained and | prominent p: | | competent sallors, | such essentials to our navy except we;ft‘ct t but we cannot offer | published a r Cit 1894, and, A DIME OF 1838—Subscriber, City. A | dime of 1838, according to coin dealers, has a market value of 25 cents; that is what is charged for coins of that denom- ination and date. It was on the that the San in_fact, all the apers of the United Stales, eport from Tahitl to the ef- hat Rodolphe Festetics de Tolna, “Look heah, Rufus Jackson, doan’ you come around hear whistlin’ deml’ hymn tunes wid dat sanctified 'spression on your face; ebery time you does dat dere’s a melon disappears from my patch de nex' night, ‘ter avold 'spicion chanee yer tune and yer face.”—Life, Ef you wants shown by the turnstiles was on Ireland’s day, March 17, 69,455, 1 June 10, Ger- many’s day, the attendance was 68,643. TIME—J. S . When e question is asked of this department the answer, when given, is cor y given. This de- must decline to enter into a oversy with any correspondent be- he happens to have a method of on as to time that dif- reaching a conclu : 3 He is entitled rs from other methods. to his conyictions. MAIL MATTER—G. F., City. After tho last delivery by a United States mail carrier he must return his satchel, key and all mail matter he canot deliver 1o the postoffice or station with which he is connected. A carrier may be permitted to take the key and satchel home at night when in the opinion of the Post- of the service will ut any undeliver in hisgatchel m first ieposited the neéirest le box. Failure to comply whh this law would carry with it the pemlty of dis- missal from the service. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. G. Balley, U. 8. A, is om of yes- terday's army arrivals at the Oiclidental. C. N. Post, one of the leading #torneys of Sacramento, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor have cone down from Napa and are staying at theGrand. W. Forsyth, a millionaire raisis grow- er of Fresno, is a guest at the Occllental. Ex-Mayor Strong and party lef last night in the private car Wandere for their homes in New York. Joseph Campbell, the Honolulu eipis ist, is staying at the Occidental. He i accompanied his wife and famiy. Sam L. Rucker, ex-Mayor of San Jose, is registered at the Palace among those who have come up to the city to winess the next few days’ rejoicings. ‘W. P. Thomas, a wehlthy and influntial merchant of Ukiah, is registered a: the Palace, where he will remain until after the volunteer celebration has come o an end. J. M, Glass, Chief of Police of Lot An- geles, is at the Grand with his wife and daughter. The family has come ip to help welcome home the returning wlun- teers. John R. Tregloan, a mining man o! Am- ador County, and H. Lindley, one if the leading politicians of Los Angeles are registered at the Palace, where they arrived yesterday for the purpose ofview- ing the parade. Among the number who have registered at the Palace for the celebration veek are Mrs. Frank McLaughlin and dawhter of San Jose, Fred H. Dakin, superhitendent of the Uncle Sam mine in Shasta County, and Thomas Flint Jr., President pro tem. of the State Senate. S. H. Babcock, traffic managet of the Rio Grande Western Railroad, now in this city. He arrived yesterdy from Santa Cruz, where he has been for the last few days. George H. Heinti general passenger agent of the same roa¢, will ar- rive in the city to-day. Both gntlemen are on a tour of inspection and gome on business connected with their ofites. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Nicolas Usssina, W. A. Hammond, San Francisco, 64 Hoft- man; Louis Fontanel, San Francis@, at Martin; G. M. Curtis, San Francist, st Majestic. - ee—— His Denomination. During the first years of his areer as an actor, Colonel W. F. Cody h@ in one of his theatrical cumpam@; a ‘\:ster;er amed ‘Bronco Bill.” There were In- gialg: in the troupe, and a cert#n mis- Slonary had joined the Aaggregdion to ook after the morals of the indians. Thinking that Bronco Bill wouldbear a little looking after also, the god man secured a seat by his side at the dinner fable and remarked, pleasantly: “This T. Bronco Bill, is it not? aas.’” o= 7 were you born? N ere e Bullard's mill on Bg Plg- Religious parents, I suppose?’ | promoted the mail matter re: What 1s your denomination?” fy what? i Your denomination? “O—ah—yaas. Smith and Wesson’—Ar- gonaut. —_—— She—Have you many poor relatiois? He—None that T know of. ny rich ones?” ‘None that know me."—Exchange — e Cream mixed candles, 25c 1b. Townsad" v S ety Treat your friends to Townsend'sall- fornia glace fruits, 50c per Ib, infire- etched boxes. 627 Market, Palace Hitel.* —————— Spectal informaticn supplied dail! to business houses and public men by.ths Press Clipping Bureay (Allen's). 310 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, e Yesterday’s Insolvent. | Plerre Loustalat, butcher, Oaklnd, $12,692; no assets. | S PR ST Very Low Rates East. On August 20 and 30, the poj Santare route will sell tickets to Philadelphia an turn at the very low rate of $8 85, sion, National Encampment, G. A. 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