The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1899. SU NDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. dguis A NSNS SO tions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ~— ISP FUBLICATION OFFICE . .Market and Third Sts, S. F | Telephone Main 1568. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ..21T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874, | Address All Com ED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. DAILY CALL PAILY CALL (including Sunday TAILY CALL (including Sunday Call) Sunday Call), one y ), § months. $ months ne Year . One Year. h - subscriptions. t cel tes will be forwarded whea r:quested. OAKLAND OFFICE...... 908 Broadway | C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marquetto Building, | Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT : C. CARLTON pE Herald Square | NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE : PERRY LUKENS dJR.. . .29 Tribune Building | CHICAGO NEWS &TANDS. Fherman House; 0. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Au um Hot NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. ‘Waldort- Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 831 Unlon Square; | Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..Woellington Hotel | J. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. 4 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street. corner Clay, open until 8:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:20 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'ciock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 22C' Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencla street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. ; “The Bells."” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivcli— Romeo and Julfet.” topher Jr."* ‘El Capitan. nd Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and ta, corner Mason and Ellls streets—Specialties. | Bath Swim: € Races, etc. n Park— nd performance to-day. 1 Basebill to-day. Union ¢ Park—Coursing To-8ay. | Mechanics' Pavilion—Mecbanics’ Falr and Philippine Ex- | lay Hall—Ballad Concert, Tuesday cvening, Sep- | AUCTION SALES. A’ W. Louderback—To-morrow, at 2:20 o'clock, Persian urkish Rugs, at 117 Sutter street. ige & luesday, September 12, , at 635 Market street, THE DREYFUS VERDICT. N the question, “Was Dreyfus guilty of enter- | : | ing into machinations.to send secret docu- | n s to a foreign power?” five members of | | the cour at 12 | al at Rennes voted yes and two voted | The accused was therefore pronounced guilty, jority agreed there were extenuating nother vote was taken as to the pun- licted, and the official announcement | he court condemns by a majority of o two Alired Dreyfus to the punishment of he judgment which the French court pro- the case which for so long a time has ged th tion of the civilized world, and France has aroused such antagonisms be- 1 the partisans of Dreyfus and the partisans of s at times to menace the security of the re- at is nounces te slic itself | The decision is not a logical conclusion of the trial, whatever view be taken of the evidence. If Dreyfus | were guil he treasonable crimes charged against him he should be executed, for it is not easy to un- | derstand how there can be extenuating circumstances in a case of treason of that sort. If, on the other hand, he be innocent, he should have received an honorable acquittal instead of a conviction and a new pt rade the issue that has so disturbed , being pronounced guilty, saves the 1i he army and of the officers of the general who condemned him in the first place. His re- after a short imprisonment, which is said to be all that is meant by the ten years’ sentence, will silence the clamor of his friends by setting him free from further punishment. The decision of the court is therefore a decision of expediency rather than of jus- tice. It is even likely that the Government, which is known to be desirous of getting rid of the case, may pardon Dreyfus and thus summarily dismiss the issue. h a conclusion of the trial will satisfy neither side. The majority of intelligent men throughout the civilized world will continue to believe Dreyfus inno- cent to regard the higher officers of the French army as guilty of a criminal conspiracy against him. On the other hand, the enemies of Dreyfus will con- tinue to assert his guilt and insist that his punishment should have been death. To the statesmen who rule 1ce these dissatisfactions will be of little moment. | They have evaded a crisis. The controversy over the | case after this will be hardly more than an academic | discussion. The incident itself is closed. It remains to be seen, however, whether in the end expediency | will have better results than would have followed the : o courage to do justice. The silver mine owners have given notice to the tional Committee that if the free silver - dropped or subordinated in the coming cam- | hey will contribute nothing to the campaign und, and that probably explains why Bryan feels able to take a holiday for a while. An i usly zealous Chicago attorney has dis- covered in the decision of an American court-martial a parallel to the Dreyfus case. American generals | already been subjected to great severity of criti- cism, but this is the first time that they were con- | sidered below criticism The boundary dispute between Alaska and Canada geems in a fair way to an amicable settlement. Both sides claim a victory and both admit having granted concessions. After the fight there is an inevitable tendency to insist that-the other fellow got the worst of it. R 1f Ph Iphia is as dead a town as its rivals claim, it takes no clairvoyant to determine the present whereabouts of the departed. A glance at the record made by the thermometer there during the passage of the recent big parade would satisfy the most skeptical that Philly has gone to —. 1 ‘anothcr speech. His effort at Woodward’s Pavilion | was an excellent sample of his assertive style. To-day | | ja |labor and capital is stronger to-day than it was in | arbitration will grow until the arbitration of disputes | will be as well s ! plaintiff has stated his case and in his petition has | the bar and give hi | the difference between arbit party to arbitrate when the other desires it? If so, he | | of tri 4 o | There is material at hand for testing this high sound- | ing sentence. SOME BRYANISMS. AN FRANCISCO has heard Mr. Bryan again, has heard him by thousands, cheered him, and gone home, while he took to the road to make S we propose to analyze only a portion of it, saying in dvance that the anti-imperial sentimeat of the coun- try cannot be, and will not be, used to elevate Mr. Bryan to the Presidency. In discussing the platiorm of 1900 he said: “Do you doubt that the demand for arbitration between 18967 1 believe it is stronger, and that the demand for between corporate capital and employes of capital ed and as practicable as is the stema | court of justice to-day for the settlement of disputes Now all that is high sound- " existing some- between man and man.” man. The President of the South African republic has proved himself to be the most dangerously ag- gressively young-old man with whom the British have lhad to deal in their policy of aggression. F men of San Mateo County have expressed their opposition to the gamblers’ scheme of getting Colma incorporated it is evident that if the issue were to be leit to the vote of all the people of the county there would be no danger whatever. The gamblers would be outvoted by a majority so heavy they would abandon the scheme at once and forever. Unfortunately the issue will not be determined by the vete of the whole county. Only the residents of the district it is proposed to incorporate will have a vote, and as they are not numerous it will be a com- paratively easy task for the political bosses like Buck: THE DANGER AT COLMA. ROM the earnestness with which representative ing and implies a great “Grievar where, to cure which this Don Quixote appears, with a barber’s basin for the helmet of Mambrino and a basswood stick for the sword of Mundarra, offering himself, for office, for the healing of the nations. His talk on arbitration is in apparent ignorance of the fact that it is in constant operation between employers and employed. The essence of arbitration is that it is voluntary. That is the difference between it and a court of When an issue goes to a court free will ceases. tary matter. The 1stice. It is no longer a vo demanded his remedy. e defendant must appear at reasons in avoidance of judgment. If these are not good in law, judgment rests upon him | and is enforced by the court. If the defendant re- fuse or neglect to appear he is in default, and judg- | In the arbitration of | ment is entered against him. differences it is for both parties to assent or for either to refuse. That is the essence of it, the mutual con- | sent of the parties to the iss joined. This makes | tion and the courts of justice, and the difference is radical. Keeping in mind ‘ this element of consent, and of a tribunal in which | there is neither plaintif nor defendant, one may well | ask, What docs Mr. Bryan mean when he speaks of | a “demand for arbitration?” Does he mean that there | is to be a Federal or State statute compelling one | | will do away with the difference between arbitration | and the courts, for free consent will disappear, plaintiff | ndant will reappear, and there will arise an- and d | other series of courts of justice with the same powers | now exercised by those which we have. The Bryan | arbitration by compulsion plan must of course have power to enforce its judgments, for why compel an unwilling and unconsenting party to appear un- less the finding can be enforced? It will be noticed that he speaks of corporations and their employes as if no differences ever arise be- tween individual capital and the labor it employ. That is the demagogue way of putting it, and Mr. Bryan cannot change his habits and methods. Let us accept his idea of compulsory arbitration, which is a paradox to juggle with and therefore suits him. When corporate capital and its labor differ labor will have the right to force the corporation to arbitrate, but that right will be valueless unless the despised corporation can be compelled to submit to the judg- ment. If labor want'$2 a day instead of $1.50 the corporation must be compelled to take back its em- | rloyes and pay them $2. If it cannot be made to do this Mr. Bryan's paradox of compulsory arbitration is‘ to labor a delusion and a snare, and to capital an idie | and idioti¢ threat. But, if labor can compel capital to nd to submit to judgment, under the same | | arbitrate compulsory processes capital can compel labor to ar- 1d submit to judgment. If capital can be en back into its employ at a wage jon, men can be compelled to work bitrate forced to take fixed by arbit for capital at a wage fixed by arbitration. How will | labor look at that side of Mr. Bryan's paradox? Many laborers, no doubt, cheered him to the echo, but how would they like to be driven to work for a certain employer at a wage fixed by his plan of com- pulsory arbit Do they not see that it takes rights from labor exactly in proportion as it abridges the rights of capital, and that the only arbitration must be by consent and cannot be by compulsion? Mr. B 1 next took up “government by injunc- tion,” opposition to which he declared would “in- crease until the people of this nation, acting through the constitutions and the laws, will make it impossible to take away from people accused of crime the right al by jury to determine the guilt or innocence.” tion? The writ of injunction is used to pro- | tect the rights of property. The people of the Feather, | Yuba, Bear, Sacramento and San Joaquin river | valleys have been living under government by injunc- | tion since Judge Sawyer’s time. Hydraulic mining in the mountains disturbed the equilibrium of their dirt and bowlders and washed both into the river beds, causing floods and covering the valley farms with | slickens. To protect their property the valley people | applied to Judge Sawyer for a permanent injunction | forbidding hydraulic mining anywhere that it imper- iled the streams. Judge Sawyer granted the injunc tion, and ‘the valley farmers of Butte, Sutter, Yuba, Colusa and other counties have since lived under government by injunction. They have enforced their rights under that government. The Anti-Debris As- sociation has been watchful, and when the injunction ; has been violated in contempt of the court that made | E it perpetual the offender has been taken to San Fran- | cisco and the court has punished him by fine or in- ! prisonment for contempt of its judgment. Now, what [ Mr. Bryan demands is that there shall either be no injunction at all or that the violators of it shall be | tried by a jury drawn from the vicinity of the offense, as the constitution requires in the case of juries. Do not the valley farmers see that under such a system | they are deprived of all means of protecting their | property by law? What chance would the Anti-| Debris Association of Sutter County stand prose- | cnting a hydraulic miner before a Nevada County jury? Yet that is the alternative offered by Mr. Bryan for the present protection by injunction and | the power to enforce it by punishment for contempt of | court. His position on arbitration and injunction is illus- trative of his mental attitude toward all public ques- tions. With no profound foresight into the conse- quences and results of the plans he advocates, they are used, after the methods of demagogy, to catch the unwary, and if he had the power to enforce them the disasters that would follow would make the curses | of his victims louder than the cheers of his sup- porters are now. A backsliding enthusiast of Pasadena is eating the bread of charity and praying night and day to make up for lost time. He might try conversion to hard work and doubly shame the devil. A Pennsylvanian bought his brother's wife, cow and house the other day for $200. He probably placed the wi{e in the inventory of furniture. Sir Henry M. Stanley seems to find opportunity for a sneer in the fact that Oom Paul is an “old” | wide open gambling hell of the worst kind. ley and the rest who are associated with the gam- blers to fill the district with voters who will do their bidding at the polls. It is that fact which constitutes the danger of the situation and arouses the watchful- ness of the people. The issue is virtually in the hands of the Super- visors. If that body concede the petition of the gam- blers for an election on the question of incorporation, and great care be not taken to prevent the importa- tion of toughs and touts and others of the gambling push, it will be a foregone conclusion the gamblers | will win out, for they have stacked the cards, loaded | the dice and fixed the game. It will be in their hands, and the genuine residents and property-owners of that pretty suburb will be helpless in the face of the odds against them. To the Supervisors, then, the people look for pro- tection. The incorporation of Colma by the gang that is now seeking it means the establishment of a It will draw to San Mateo the viler elements of the popu- | lation of San Francisco and blight the county as the | region around Sausalito has been blighted. It will be a place to be shunned by decent people, and be- come the resort of knaves and their dupes. The exposure of the evil effects of the Ingleside | racetrack gambling in this county has been so re- cently made the Supervisors of San Mateo cannot have forgotten the dreadful record of crimes and tragedies that were traced to that source. Moreover, they must be aware of the disgraceful scenes that have been again and again enacted in Sausalito in the strife of one set of gamblers against another. many points for the Supervisors to take into consid- | eration in dealing with the issue, but surely the de- termining one must be that of protecting the commun- ity from crime. The Mole St. Nicholas man seems to have changed his base of operations to Atlanta, Ga. At any rate the wild and woolly “German spy” story circulated from that point by Bentheim bears all the marks of the handiwork of the man on thesmole. Business men are shy of accepting local Demo- cratic Supervisorial nominations. Those that over- | come their diffidence are likely to find the day after election that a shyness of votes in their pile was ample justification of their first thoughts. C casting the financial recommendations of the Government agree that at the coming session Congress will be asked to revise the war revenue bill for the purpose of correcting certain defects which have been found in it, and also for the purpose of in- creasing the amount of revenue derived from it. Such revision will be in accord with the popular wish, for THE WAR REVENUE LAW. OMMUNICATIONS from Washington fore- | ever since the law has been in operation it has been evident the ambiguities of the language of the act have made room for tax-shirking on a large scale by great corporations and the consequent shifting of the tax upon the public. Among the largest of these tax-shirkers the ex- press companies have been notorious. The Call has | repeatedly pointed out the many tricks the Wells- Fargo Express Company has practiced on this coast in evading the tax. No sooner was the law enacted than the express company requested The Call to con- nive at a scheme for shirking the tax and promised 2 share of the profits. By the scheme suggested the express company offered to receive from The Call a whole wagon-load of papers as one package, thus de- franding the Government of that much of its just revenues. The Call as a matter of course refused to be a party to the swindle and promptly exposed thé proposal. It is quite likely, however, that some other large shippers may have joined in the scheme and that the Government has been defrauded all along in that way. Recently suit was brought against the company by a firm of merchants who allege that for a considerablz time the express company took goods from them for shipment without requiring them to pay the stamp taxes. That was done for a large shipper, while nizller shippers were compelled to pay the tax. Thus | a discrimination was made which was unfair to the public and onerous to those upon whom the injustice | fell. From the nature of the proposition made to The | Call it is fair to assume that when the express com- pany took shipments from large shippers and agreed to pay the tax it took whole wagon-loads of packages and lumped them together and put but one stamp upon the receipt. Bad as these offenses are, however, they are but a minor part of the comprehensive tax-shirking of the corporations. As a rule express companies have re- quired the public to pay the taxes which the law im- poses upon the companies themselves. The issue has been taken to the courts time and again in many States and the decisions have been against the claims of the corporations, but nevertheless they have continued to rob the public day aiter day until the aggregate of the sums extorted now amounts to millions of dollars. When Congress undertakes the revision of the law care should be taken to put an end to such tax- shirking as that which has been exposed. The Con- gressmen from this State will be expected to insist upon that point. The people of California are weary of being robbed by tax-shirkers. The language of the law should be freed from ambiguities and made clear beyond the possibility of a legal quibble. More- over, a heavy penalty should be imposed upon the corporation that undertakes to evade the law and shirk the tax. The issue will be one of the most im- portant to be dealt with at the coming session, and the delegation from California should stand as a unit for the people and the Government against the shirkers. A Marin County litigant has sued a woman convict of San Quentin for a sum of money which he loaned her. He should remember that the lady is State prop- erty and cannot be sued. It is said that a neglect of British interests has made England a laughing stock in China. It is ten to one there is considerable Chinase uneasiness in the laugh. There may be | $ OO BX P Maurice Grau is reported to have stated in a recent interview in London that he would like to have grand operas sung in English for the reason that they would be more thoroughly enjoved by American and English audiences; yet it is impossible to do so. “It is all right in theory,” he sald, “but it is not all right in practice. When you come to sift the objections you get down finally to just one, and that is that the artists, as a rule, don't wish to sing in English. Some of them, of course, can’'t speak English, but that doesn’t matter so much when you come to consider that Plancon, for instance, sings an entire opera in admirable Ger- man without being able to speak a sin- gle word of that language in conversa- tion. It isn’t the difficulty of acquiring to the language itself. I dare say that if we were to ask Mme. Nordica, an American, born in Maine, to sing grand opera in English she would object. So, doubtless, would Mme. Eames and all | the other singers whose native tongue | is English. It doesn’t appear to be so | much that English is hard to sing as it | Is that it is considered beneath an art- ist's dignity to sing grand opera in English. They seem to feel that it would be somehow a degradation.” Inasmuch as there are a good many men and women who are just as nice folks if not as fine singers as Eames, ‘Nnrdica and the rest, who do sing | grand opera in English without being | degraded, it is evident there is some- 1Lh1nf: wrong with the Grau theory. iGrand opera in English brings about 50 cents an orchestra stall, while in any | other language it brings $5 a gallery | seat and becomes a soclal function. | That may have much to do with the problem. It doesn’t degrade the artists, but it lowers the prices, and that is | enough to make any high-souled devo- | tee to the most spiritual of arts quaver |in the voice and give forth raucous tones. . It is quite within the limits of prob- | ability that one of the reasons why | gifted singers with heaven-sent volces ‘soorn to sing grand opera in English is | because there is no fit translation of the ‘wm‘fls. I have never studied the Eng- {lish libretto of a grand opera, and therefore cannot speak with certainty on the subject; but lately I have had | accasion to note the English version of the German of some of Schubert's ngs, and have found ample cause to believe that English versions of opera must be something that could be safely | recommended to kill cats. In one of Schubert’s songs, “Auf dem Flusse,” the poet addresses a frozen river whose current is hidden under ‘lhl('k ice. The translation in Pauer’s | edition of the songs contains this gem | of a verse: As still as death you seem; A hard substantial flooring 1s laid down overhead, And motionless and dreary Lies on the sand outspread. Now, what singer in the wide world could pour forth his emotions in song through the medium of such a bill of | specifications as that calling for a | “hard, substantial flooring, laid down | overnead”? 1 waive the question of putting the floor overhead where the ceiling ought to be, and submit the proposition solely upon its aptness to | incline any rational creature to sing it. s cienia | “Retrospect” is one of Schubert's gongs in which the poetry in the Ger- man is finest and best. It opens with an outburst of passion in which the singer declares that his impatience and his eagerness to hasten away from a town of misfortune are such that al- though his path is through ice and snow vet his feet burn. In the English ver- sion the song begins more like the wail of a tramp than the rage of a poet: With broken boots fresh anguish causing My burning feet press ice and snow. It is not worth while to pursue the | theme. When the burning impatience of a lover's flying feet is turned into the anguish caused by broken boots it is time to abandon translation and stick to the original. It is, indeed, even bet- ter to return to our own native, true, | American minstrelsy and give utterance | in melody to the fervor and beauty of such words as these: Baby don’t go and leave me, You know it's gwine to grieve me. Hold me tight, I lub you, baby mine. Don’'t want a cent of sugar, Don’t want no other nigger, When you linger by my side It's honey all the time. o We must go East to learn what s go- ing on in San Francisco and get a clear insight into the motives that cause the going. The Filipino village at the Me- chanies’ Fair affords an illustration of the dear old truth. In this city we may believe the Filipinos were brought here partly to enable us to see what a Fili- pino is like and partly to furnish a novel attraction for the fair. In the East they have a far higher wisdom than that. The Washington corre- spondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger informs his paper that the Gov- ernment has been notified that the Fili- pinos were brought here for political effect. He says they are of a very low order of Intelligence, extremely careless in the matter of cleanliness, and adds: “Tt is believed that the real object in bringing these degraded specimens of | humanity to this country is to show what a mass of ignorance and savagery the United States has become respons- | ible for, and that the resuit would be the creation of a sentiment against keeping the Philippines.” To that statement there is hardly any repartee possible except to say to ‘Washington, Philadelphia and the whole Bast: “You are another.” o e s | | | | | | It is not only the Filipino in sight in this country that disturbs the imperial- ist, for the Filipino out of sight in his own tropical paradise is about as irri- tating. In fact, there are some Eastern jingoes who believe the Filipino is a kissing bug. A correspondent of the New York Sun thus pictures the enemy: “The whole campaign illustrates some features of the situation in the Philip- ‘pines admirably. We are fighting a reckless, irresponsible enemy who can scatter his men like scared chickens at will whenever he is pressed too closely. ‘When we think we have him com- pletely demoralized and ready to give up he takes advantage of the slightest lapse of vigilance on our part to gather his robed-in-the-garments-of-peace sol- diers together again and give us a whack. By the time we can gather our- selves up to wipe him off the face of the earth he is back in the garments of peace again, and we can’t find him.” It is to be hoped the Philadelphia English, but it seems to be an objection | 0“*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*’*’-}0*0*0*0*0*0”*0*0!0*0”*0!0{-0 EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. _ BY JOHN McNAUGHT. O*OXOLOXOROXOXOXOXOX DX X OX KD 3 H SXPHS ¥ * FPXOROROAOXPXOAOROADAOXIXOX] Ledger and the Washington authorities Will give attention to that statement of the Sun. A race of people whose sol- diers when slaughtered one day on the field of battle rise next day in the gar- ments of peace and on the third day are ready to fight again is certainly a race | worth putting on exhibition. In fact, the sight of a single one of them is worth the price of admission. This is the time for Eastern tourists to come West and see our show. PR In these days a new form of political | jobbery is about as hard to invent as Wwas a mew pleasure in the days when Sardanapalus offered a province to any man who would devise one. Neverthe- less a novel job has been forthcoming, and Pennsylvania is the land of its tri- umph. The State Zoologist of that good State wrote 2 small treatise on the dis- eases and enemies of poultry. When printed it formed a pamphlet of less than 100 pages. He submitted it to the Legislature as a work which should be in every household, and the legislators, believing him and seeing no harm in a poultry pamphlet, nor suspecting any in a zoologist, authorized its publication by the State “with such alterations and additions as the author should see fit to make.” The author saw fit to make a good many. His little pamphlet ex- panded to a volume of 749 pages. The courts were appealed to in vain. The act authorizing the book is valid, and it must be published even though it rakes the treasury. In its expanded form the work seems to be a treatise on universal knowledge, with special adaptability for use in pub- lic schools. One critic says of it: “Without doubt the volume is worth an extended review if only because It is an example of probably one of the most barefaced perversions of the plain in- tent of an act ever presented in the his- tory of the State. There are a few col- ored plates illustrating diseases of poul- try, and there are upward of 100 pictur- ing birds, mammals and wild birds’ eggs. There are nuwmerous half-tone plctures illustrating picturesque spots in Pennsylvania and of men dressed in grass gunning suits. There is a two- page story pathetically describing how twelve ducklings belonging to a ‘cross old hen, who scolded’ because, her fos- | ter offspring took to the water, disap- peared one by one in the most mysteri- ous manner; how several innocent cats were suspected and shot; how a faithful | pointer was beaten and tied up for the | same reason; how a boy was held under surveillance because of a belief that he was the guilty one, and how a snapping | turtle was finally found to be the crim- inal by a ‘sturdy son of Vulcan'; how the dog was released from imprison- ment and signalized his joy by half kill- ing a favorite kitten belonging to ‘an | old maid’; how the boy was petted, and | how, in fact, all were made happy ex- | cept the poor, slaughtered cats, whose bodies were used as fertilizers for some | grapevines which needed rich nourish- | ment. There are other stories scattered through the book which may be consid- | ered very entertaining even though | they have little relation to diseases of poultry.” One would suppose an official having such small opportunities as fall to the | lot of a zoologist, who could make a | coup of that kind, would be at once | placed upon a pedestal as a standing | candidate for higher honors, but such public favor has not been awarded him. He has been forced by the clamors of an unlearned populace to resign his of- fice, and is now tormented by inquiries from librarians as to whether his book should be catalogued under the classifi- cation of agriculture, ornithology, mammalogy, ichthyology or general sports. Figings Sl From the designs submitted for the buildings of the University of California | it is evident the competing architects | took our large words literally. We said | we desired the bigsest thing on the | globe, and they pfepared their designs | accordingly. Such superb masses of | architecture have not been seen since the days of the Caesars. One enrap- tured gazer upon the plans said to an- other: “What do_you think?” and the other responded T think I should like to live to see the last building of either set completed.” The vastness of each structure de- vised for carrying out the vaster plan of the stupendous whole has staggered the general public. We expected some- thing that would surpass Stanford, and we have received something into which all Stanford could be placed and lost to sight, remaining not even to memory | dear. If we make a stagger at accom- plishing such a marvelous aggregate of palaces in our present mood it will | be something like a case of blind stag- | gers. For the moment we are “beat,” and feel much like the peasant to whom the rajah gave the eiephant. Fortunately for.us, the human mind grows up to the level of whatever it contemplates with a sincere aspiratton. Magnificent as the plans are, they are in truth none too magnificent for Cali- | fornia. They present to us an ideal of | architectural beauty, and it is now our | duty to live up to it. Something like a fortune will be required to construct a single one of the principal edifices of either of the designs, and it is not likely any Legislature will vote a sufficient appropriation for it. We must rely upon the munificence of millionaires, and 1, for one, believe the reliance will not be in vain. At any rate, we have started out upon a big venture, and something monumental will come of it even If it be no more than a bust. Py TR In commenting last week upon the fact that the Eastern press in referring to university education in this State nearly always speaks of Stanford and ignores Berkeley as if it were not, I said unless something be done promptly to advertise Berkeley the report of the great architectural designs would be re- garded in the East as the announce- ment of an annex to Stanford’s family monument. That was intended for ex- aggeration, but there is many a true word spoken when we do not intend it. On one of the designs for the new build- ings there is laid out a broad thorough- fare through the grounds, and it is marked “Stanford avenue. e T It is to be hoped the people of California will grapple in earnest with the noble task that has been set them at Berkeley. It is certainly an inspiring one, for superb architecture more pro- foundly affects the imagination than any other art. It appeals strongly to all that is greatest in the human mind, and accordingly kings and conquerors and all men of vast ambitions have been great builders. Nations that have cherlshed high {deals of grandeur, whether imperial or republican, have shared with their aspiring leaders the delight in magnificent structures. The turbulent freemen of old Rome yielded & more willing submission to the rule of Augustus Caesar because he trans- formed their city of brick into a city o'r marble and made it truly majestic. l\apoleon won the people of artistic Paris by adorning that city with new palaces and stately monuments, and in our own count even so vulgar a leader as Boss Tweed longv held the favor of the voters of New York by reason of the elaborata works he undertook in the way of splendid public buildings and park dec- orations. “Man,” said Cicero, “never works so ltke a god as In the bullding of a na- tion.” Now, the spirit that animates a people to make a great commonwealth can best manifest itself in J forms through the medium of architec- | ture. To that art all others except mu- sic are accessory and subordinate. A generous, patriotic woman, through a happy inspiration, has given us an impetus toward a genuinely noble achievement in architecture and has furnished us with the best designs for its attainment the skill and the genfus of our age can provide. It remains to be seen how we will respond to the leadership. California holds a proud pre-eminence in the Union by reason of the grandeur of her scenery. Shall we now add to her glory a tri- umph of architecture not unworthy of the land of Yosemite, of Tahoe and of Shasta? SR PR GGG IR0 POSTAGE ON SUNDAY CALL. SUNDAY CALL wrapped ready for mailing—postage 2¢ to all points in United States, Canada and Mexico, and 4c¢ to all for- eign points. P e s 00000060@000000000 : PRESS COMMENTS : P00 0000000000006 % The Call Forging to the Front. Astorian. There are several excellent dailies pub- lished in San Francisco, but among them The Call is surely forging to the front. Its Sunday's issue is freer from yellowish literature than its contemporaries, al- though it teems with columns of bright and newsy matter which is rapidly ad- vancing it in public esteem. The Exam- iner, like its sister publication, the Jour- nal of New York, is radically sensational and impairs its_general appearance Wwith 2 makeup which might well resemble a resistance to a bombardment by printer's ink and assorted type loaded and fired at random. The Call is neat typographical- 1y, and under the present admirable. man- agement Is sure of boundless success. e Says Gage Slapped Labor. Ukiah Dispatch and Democrat. The Building Trades Council of San Francisco have passed strong resolutions denouncing Governor Gage for appointing F. V. Meyers of Stockton Labor Commis- sloner. Mr. Gage has again slapped the laboring people in the face by turning the only office that could be of aid to them over to the Southern Pacific. It is strange that the workingmen of the State | would expect anything from the Gover nor's office. Herrin demanded the posi- tion for a corporation friend and of course his valet, Narrow Gage, had to give it to him. St N The People’s Burden. Ukiah Dispatch and Democrat. “Imperialism” and a large standing army may be a good thing for trusts and yndicat: that profit by Government iz\fi{ra( but they will be a terrible bur- den for the people to bear. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Ex-€ongressman James A. Louttit of Stockton is at the Lick. G. F. Trenwith, a Santa Barbara mer- chant, is a guest at the Grand. L. N. Parks, a mining man of Poker Bar, is registered at the Occldental. Captain J. Mellon, who operates steam- boats on the Colorado River, is at the Lick. Dunning Rideout and W. B. Swain of Marysville are among the arrivals at the Palace. William T. Brill, who is connected with the St. Paul Ploneer Press, is staying at the Palace. Joseph Perrault, City Surveyor of Boise, Tdaho, and uncle of Supervisor Perrault, is at the Grand for a brief stay, R. M. Shackelford, the Paso Robles cap- italist, who has been staying at the Lick for the past week, left for home yester- day. T. H. Selvage, an attorney of Eureka, and C. Pereira, who owns coffee planta- tions in Guatemala, are arrivals at the Grand. A. E. Law, division superintendent of the Northern Pacific for Minnesota, is registered at the Occidental with his wife and son, Captain A. A. Law. Charles F. Hoffman, the well-known California mining engineer, has returned from South America, where he was en- gaged professionally in the interests of a British syndicate. He has also been in Siberia and elsewhere during the past five vears. M. G. Hall, superintendent of the North- ern Pacific Express, with headquarters at Portland, Or., Is in the city with his family. Mr. Hall is also manager of the Alaska and Pacific Express Company, which operates a line from Portland and Seattle to Dawson. He is here on busi- ness and pleasure combined. ————— JUDGE AND ATTORNEY AT OUTS Ernest Graves Objects to Paying a 3 Fine for Contempt. Ernest Graves, a well-known attorney in San Luis Obispo County, has locked horns with the Judge of the Superior Court of that division, with results un- pleasant to his Honor Judga Unangst and unprofitable to Graves. The latter had a case before the court a week or so ago, and he grrscntcd an affidavit in which he set forth that the Judge was bl concluding by asserting that by r the alleged bias his client’would not have a fair and impartial hearing. Graves re- quested or demanded that the court call in a Judge from some adjoining county to hear the case so that his client should not suffer by reason of the bias mentioned, Judge Unangst considered the affidavit as uncalled for and he fined Attorney Grave8 $400 for contempt. Yesterday attorneys represerting Graves applied to the Su- preme Court for a writ of certiorari to re- strain the lower court from executing the order of commitment. The ground for the application is that the lower court had exceeded its jurisdiction. A writ was granted by the Supreme Court, together with a stay of proceedings, until the mat- ter of the contempt and jurisdiction can be reviewed. —————— Robbed Railroad Cars. Charles McDevitt, a well known thief, was booked at the City Prison vesterday by Detective Rgan and Special Detective Lewin of the Southern Pacific Company on the charfie of burglary. He is accused ?:lgm;el?kmgh nto ‘?ussern er cars and steal- ogether about ounds Which e Soid 10 Sk demeras® °f brass. Cal.glace fruit 50c per |b at Townsend’s.* —_——— w!')z;eld ;nformulcn suppiled dally to ess houses and public men b; Press Clipping Buunu’(A“eu' i sl the 's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone ann lda ¢