The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1899, Page 6

"H 7 SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 1899, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, LEAKE, Manager. S tions to W. Communic = _.....MarKet and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. PUBLICATION OF Single Cc Including Postage: AILY day Call), one vear........$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. Call), 3 months 4 when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.... C. GEORGE N/ . Manager Forsign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON........ - .......Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE : PERRY LUKENS JR 29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; torium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. ia Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unlon Square; Waldorf-A Murray Hill Ho WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ENGLISH, Covi ....Wellington Hotel pondent AMUSEMENTS. audeville, Opera- Zoo an atin: Vaudeville every afi reater- corner Maso: iis strests—Specialties. , Baths—Sw s' Fair and Phifippine Ex- THE TRANSVAAL. = HE proposition that our Government offer r nediation between England and the Boers meets with no official favor. It serves, how- € k g the actual relation existing between | that republic into eral notice. The ment has ily concealed the nature between suzerainty. By the tr d the Transvaal it was arranged that England the Several American citizens nbitious venture. They ap- f, and we at once n onal matters ernat This relation came up in for reli s to Great Britain as the suze We received the Transvaal should be and that The domestic to el arraign de- the local laws, were found leath. That sentence could ess of any protest and: in- s Government or t Britain. President sted the death i a substitute a very heavy fine and the men were set free and was paid, the country. re striking way England asknowledged lence of the Transvaal ydes for instigating the Jameson the Uitlanders in their revolutionary s permitted enlargement hts are not limited to matters, but that she has power to dictate to t Boers their internal and that they give to British 1bjects a vote and voice in the government of the out relinquishment of their allegiance rnation: e in to der republic, wi Jritain ing it. Nothing but her superior might is stive for the making of a claim so absurdly for- to her treaty stipulations. But, no matter to eig what extent she exceeds her just powers, we are in no to protest or to mediate. .appeared in the field of exterior politics. We have one beyond our own shores, and have as a precedent positic action made certain pledges to the world as to our Those pledges in regard to Cuba and the te possessions of Spain remain unfulfilled, and in tances have been specifically violated. There is in this country a vicious and carefully propagated sentiment in favor of violating them all. England from the first ingeniously lured us into this posi- tion, for the reason that before we occupied it we were the only nation that could forcibly and-.con- sistently protest to her in favor of the wronged and the weak. We had no beam in our own eye, and had the right to see the mote in hers. All this is changed and our right of challenge of another Government is subject to its right to offer interference in our own dealings of a similar nature e rave ceased to be the_one power in the world which, doing equity, could demand it. that has come in the world’s affairs since our change purposes. of front and purpose is very significant and appalling | to the weaker peoples and power: gated the notion thz It has propa- a few strong nations have” the right to divide the world among them, and that it shall be divided up among the United Stites, Eng- land, Russia and Germany. Bonaparte set out to make the Continent all French, and declared that it was destiny that it should be French or Cossack. His idea was only a little more monopolistic than the current cult. It is to be regretted that we have abandoned our moral position and that the nations of this hemisphere begin to look upon us with the same suspicion and aversion that have been felt against England for generations. There appears to be now a chance that war between England and the Boers may be averted, but only by a surrender to Great Britain in matters that she has no right to control and by concessions so offensive that they are only yielded in the face of overwhelming and destructive force. And so Edna Wallace Hopper, who, since her di- vorce irom the fickle De Wolf, is known among her friends as the “grass Hopper,” is not to marry Jockey Tod Sloan. Mamma Wallace says “Never!” The dispatches announce that two Filipino briga- diers and 2 bunch of colonels want to be captured. General Otis ought to bait a few traps in the neigh- borhood of Manjla. A violent hurricane has been raging in the Ber- mudas. Breaths from the loveliest onion patches in the world will soon be wafting around the world. / 908 Broadway | rnoon and | She possesses no such right, and | 3y e nsvaal her equal in strength would be far We have recently | The change | PHILIPPINE NEWS. THF. statement by Commissioner Schurman, and the interview with General Reeve published | c.\‘clusi\"ely in The Call, give some information of genuine value to the American people. Schurman affirms the advanced civilization of the Filipinos an_d their industrial capacity. He professes great confi- dence in the people and much sympathy for their as- pirations. His statement presents certain contradic- dictions, due to the pressure of his official undertak- |ing. He finds great difficulty in the way of their in- dependence because they are not a nation. When our forefathers revolted against England | | they were not a nation. The thirteen colonies had mo i tie except a common racial origin. Each under a separate Royal Charter granted by the So | ereign of England. They united only in the desire | for independence and seli-government, and had no common civil bond until after the revolution That bond, in the old Confederation, was very slight and did not create a nation. That act was | deferred for six years after the treaty of peace. ~We | did not establish nationality and a common Federal | authority without rebellion, resistance and outbreaks, | and the issues arising in the national interpretation of the Federal constitution were not finally settled | until we had fought the most sanguinary ci\'il‘war‘ ever known, seventy-two years after we attempted to form a more perfect nationality under the consrim»} tion. In the light of our own history Professor | Schurman’s objection to Philippine nationality be- | cause it is not a nation now is very considerably | modified. His ascription to the people of the quali- ties of intelligence, fidelity and virtue is an answer | to the persistent attempt to represent them as unde- | suc- ceeded. serving savages. ‘ General Reeve makes a still more important con- tribution to the stock of information on the subject. | | He found the Filipinos enlightened, orderly, indu trious and ambitious. They were modest in their as- | piration for self-government and desirous of the suzerainty of the United States in their international irs, while in their domestic concerns they desired a | independence and self-government. He affirms that | throughout Luzon, Panay, Negros and Cebu thc} native government preserved order and ruled justly | | from the t | ago last July. should smite the truth into the cons: editors who are calling them bandits. The fact appears proved that no conquerors ever took their victory with more temperance and absten- | tion from outrage on private and property rights than lipinos, to whom, under the laws of nations e they conquested those islands, a year His emphatic language on this subject | nce of those | these F and of war, the sovereignty of the islands passed by conquest more than a year ago. in the opinion that the present war of conquest was unne Looking { at the general facts of the situation this opinion is justified. We have treated with the Mahometan Sul- tan of the Sulus and have paid him a sal General Reeve is emphat PSSary. ry to ac- knowledge our sovereignty while we have left the in- ternal administration of his country untouched. In | other words, we have agreed that the Mahometan Sulus are qualified for domestic independence and i-government. In the of the millions of Christians on the islands of Luzon, Panay, Negros | and Cebu, we by proclamation denied them the same rights so freely conceded, with a salary on the side, to the Mahometans. This places us in the attitude of claiming that centuries of Christianity have dis-"| qualified the Christian Malays for seli-government, while centuries of Islam have qualified the -Mahon | etan Malays for self-government! | Throughout the East the preference given to Xahometanism by the United States will have its effect. To our mind no more serious blow could be struck at the efforts of Christian missionaries in Asia. case Police Surgeon Heintz seems to be a sensitive plant from the backwoods. He has posted a bulletin | warning reporters away from the Receiving Hospital operating-room. The suspicion is well grounded that | Heintz fears that his methods are not up to the metro- | politan standard. s | THE SHAMROCK TRIAL RUNS. HILE the Columbia continues to be a strong avorite in betting circles, the that come from New York concerning the Sham- { rock tend to the conclusion that the American yacht | has by no means such a sure thing as one would sup- | pose from the reports of the odds offered by her sup- | porters. The results of the trial trips made by the Shamrock | show that she will probably give the Columbia a hard race in almost any kind of weather, and that with strong winds she will have a very good chance to wia if she be properly handled. Commenting upon her ap- pearance and performances the New York Sun says: “This and that about the Shamrock have produced | the impression that she is more of a novelty than her | predecessors, and that the strong hope unquestionably cherished by her owner is that the new ideas in her | will work. She carries the greatest of rigs to drive | her in case the air is light, and, it is believed, lhc} heaviest of weights at the bottom of the deepest of | keels to hold her sails up to the wind in case it blows. As an attempt at ap all-round boat she outstrips all for boldness in design.” i It is to be noted, moreover, that those who watched | | the trials of the challenger speak in admiration of the skill pf her captain and her crew.. It is therefore not likely we shall be able to profit by any great su- | periority in that respect. Taken altogether the con- clusion from the reports must be that the two yachts | are not far from an equality of merit, and that the | reason why such odds are given against the challenger | is that the American is 2 bolder bettor than the Briton | and is in this instance betting very largely on pa- triotism. reports more than once, have fought like human buzzards for EPORTS from Chicago are to thé effect that the World’s Fair records. It is stated that several than on any single day of the great fair, not excepting Furthermore, it is stated the large traffic is not due “Roads like the Grand Trunk are now running their | gers to a coach, and some in the aisles in many in- through the gates. The same crush is visible at the | An unclean bird would be a strikingly appropriate advertising sign for the Oakland undertakers who, the possession of the bodies of the dead. A SIGN OF PROSPERITY. R passenger traffic on Western roads centering in | that city has reached a point where it surpasses times during the past few weeks the stations of Chicago have received larger crowds of passengers those which were made specially attractive by some conspicuous event of the exposition. to excursion or suburban travel, but to the passenger lists of the regular trains. According to the report: regular trains in two sections into Chicago. These trains are running with an average of seventy passen- stances. Saturday night at the Polk-street depot, be- tween 8 and 11 o'clock, over 3000 passengers passed | Union station. The east and west roads have alt the: x passenger business they can comfortably handle. Be- tween , 20,000 and 25000 passengers a day was considered a comfortable crowd at the Union station in 1893, but as many are now being handled, and on | days of special trains the past records are surpassed.” Of course the explanation of this immense.passen- ger travel, whigh is noted in other large cities of the East as well as in Chicago, is the prevailing prosper- ity of the country. . The people this year can afford to travel. Residents of the cities have had vacations in the country, and the farmers with their families are visiting the cities. The crops have been good, prices are fair, business is booming, and a general spirit of satisfaction prevails. There are good reasons for believing the large pas- senger travel to and from the pleasure resorts and metropolitan centers of the East during the.sum- and the fall will be followed by a correspond- ingly large travel westward to California and south- ward to Florida later in the season. The winter re- sorts of the country will be as well patronized as the summer resorts have been. The outlook for the tourist trade of the coming season is therefore excel- lent, and it is probable our noted hotels will do a record-breaking business. With such prospects ahead it will be worth while for Californians to be more than usually energetic in advertising the attractiveness of the various sec- tions of the State. While this is decidedly the best winter climate-in the United States, the State is to some extent handicapped by its remoteness from the centers of population in the East and by the lavish advertising given to the Florida resorts by the big companies which own the hotels there. It will prob- ably pay- us well this wimer‘ to make special efforts to attract tourists. When passenger travel is sur- passing the records of the World's Fair year at Chicago it is time to turn it in our direction if pos- sible. mer An irritable bill collector of San Rafael has indi- cated an unkind desire to perforate several news- paper men who have angered him. He should not forget that jaw practice never perforates. D the Supply Committee of the Board of Edu- cation, took occasion at the meeting of the board on Wednesday evening to deny that there had been any irawd or corrupt collusion between either of them and any bidder for the contracts for furnishing the school supplies. The denial of Director Conlon was made with the indefinite fluercy of extempore speech, but that of Director Gedge was more orderly and formal, being expressed in a written communication denying that he had received $2000 for assisting in the award of con- tracts to certain firms which he named, and denying also having had the specifications changed. He sub- mitted letters from the firms named, and also one from the secretary of the board, supporting his denials. His communication closed with a request ‘that the board investigate the charges. After some consider- ation the board decided the investigation could. be THE RIGHT COURSE. IRECTORS Gedge and Conlon, members of better made by the Grand Jutry, and accordingly a|ist, is a g | | | | | resolution’ was adopted requesting that body .to in- | vestigate and pledging the board to offer the Grand Jury every facility to get at the truth of the whole | matter. The action taken by the board is right. An inves- tigation by the board itself would not be satisfactory to the people. ' The matter is one that should be in- quired into by the Grand Jury—a body that can gather information given under oath, that has author- ity to bring indictments against the accused parties if found guilty. Moreover, the Grand Jury is an im- partial body, while the Board of Education is too closely identified with its own Committee on Sup- plies to be properly fitted for conducting such an ex- amination as is required in this case. The Call has made it known that Director Gedge | informed at least one reputable citizen that the sum | of $2000 was paid to him for conceding certain advan- tages to a firm of bidders for the contract for fur nishing school supplies, and also that he had given $800 of the money to Director Conlon, who, accord- ing to the story told by Gcr}g& was a party to the deal. Such is the evidence now before the public. - An investigation is imperative, but the Board of Educa- tion has done well in referring the matter to the Grand Jury. That is the right course. COLOR LINE IN POLITICS. NE of the State campaigns now under way @ which is of national importance is that in North Carolina, where an attempt is being made to bring about the adoption of an amendment to the constitution which will virtually eliminate the black vote of the State for the rest of this generation. The proposed amendment requires an educational qualification for the right of suffrage, but it exempts from the requirement all voters who are descendants of men who were voters in the United States priar to 1867. The exemption, it will be seen, includes all white men, but bars negroes. Conse- quently the illiterate white will continue to be a voter even if the amendment be adopted, but the illiterate negro will be deprived of suffrage. The plan is similar to that already adopted in Mississippi and South Carolina. It is a part of a | movement which has been spreading throughout the Southern States, and may yet be adopted by all of them. It is said the people of Virginia and West Virginia.and even those of Maryland are giving the subject much consideration, and success in North Carolina may lead to the adoption of the plan in those States. According to reports from North Carolina it ap- pears the amendment will be carried by a sweeping majority. Strangely enough a considerable number of white Republicans are said to be in favor of it, and one of the ablest of their leaders, Thomas Settle, an ex-Representative in Congress, is quoted as having declared it to be “the one and wisest solution of the most difficult problem now confronting the people of North Carolina and other Southern States, irre- spective of race or politics.” The matter of national importance in the issue is the effect such wholesale restriction of suffrage in the South will have upon the apportionment of Repre- sentatives in Congress after the next census. There were in 1890 something more than 1,750,000 colored men of voting age in the United States, and in 1800 they were allowed by law to exercise the franchise everywhere except in. Mississippi and South Caro- lina. Since that time Louisiana has adopted a consti- tutional provision which debars most of them in that State from voting, and now. North Carolina seems about to follow the example, It is not likely the people of the North will be will- ing to concede to the South representation in Con- gress upon the whole of her population when up- ward of one half of it is excluded from the exercise of the franchise. The issue will not arise until ths time comes for apportioning Representatives after the census of next year, but it will be sure to arise then, and is being already discussed among far-sighted poli- MCIfE. ¥ S e = i s e lineal- | tleman AN EXCHANG OF COURTESIES. I 5)5), —St. Paul Ploneer Press, AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. F. F. Upham, 4 well-known physi- cian of Dixon, is at the Grand, Lieutenant A. Ohin, U. S. A., was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Occidental. J. 8. McBride, a wealthy mining man of San Juan, is registered at the Lick. L. H. Griffith, a wealthy banker from Seattle, is a recent arrival at the Grand. Judge E. E. Gaddis, the prominent ‘Woodland jurist, is among the arrivals at the Lick. State Senator J. C. Sims has come down from his Santa Rosa home and is a guest at the Lick. Fred Searls, the Nevada City capital- at the Palace, where he ar- rived last evening. Sir Thomas Tancred, an English gen- traveling for pleasure, is regis- tered at the Palace. Robert Devlin, a prominent merchant of Sacramento, is registered at the Occi- dental with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. 8. V. McClatchy have come down from Sacramento and are staying at the California. A. Musto, one of the leading merchants of Stockton, is registered at the Grand. He is on a business trip to this city. Rev. Wells M. Partridge, a missionary from Alaska, is a guest at the Occident- al. He arrived yesterday morning from Seattle. J. C. Bull Jr. of Arcata, who is con- structing the new breakwater at Bureka, arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Lick. Dr. A. W. Peckham, one of the leading physicians of Philadelphia, is at the Pal- ace, where he will remain for the next few days. The Occidental is decorating itself to give a military reception to a stranger from the south. No one seems to know who he is. Among those to arrive from the East last evening and registered at the Cali- fornia was Edmond Michotte, commis- sioner of the Royal Belgian Museum. He is accompanied by his wife and family. The hotel clerks at the different hostel- ries nearly had heart fallure last evening. The overland arrived on time for the first time In something over a month. No reason can be assigned for this phenom- enal feat other than Manager Krutf- schnitt must have made another mistake and done something to let the Southern Pacific employes know he is alive. Francis Lee, the electrical expert who has conferred o much honor on his Stan- ford alma mater by his achievements in the world of electrical science, leaves in a few days for a visit to the East and Can- ada. He goes to sign a very important contract, and carries with him the best wishes of the numberless warm, friends he has made, both during his college ca- reer and his active life as a San Francisco business man. George Borrowe, son of Captain Bor- rowe of the Anti-Caloric Company, is vis- iting his parents at their country home in Sausalito. Young Mr. Borrowe went forth to seek his fortune in South Africa some years ago. He succeeded so well through his energy and ability that now, though very young, he is one of the highest sala- ried men in the African mining business and is considered an authority on all mat- ters pertaining to that country. Besides his salary Mr. Borrowe has succeeded in accumulating an independent private for- tune. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 14—Henry H. Nes- bit and wife of San Francisco are at the St. Denis. John DeWitt Nesbit of Los Angeles is at the St. Denis. S. H. Fried- lander of ‘San Francisco is at the Nor- mandie. P — DUMB ANIMALS' FRIENDS. The Society’s Lady Members Pre- paring a Fine Entertainment. The ladies interested in the organiza- tion of the bands 6f mercy of this city have decided to give an entertainment in the second week of November. The or- ganizers are all members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and their mission is to educate the young- sters to be kind to dumb animals. That they have been suecess.ul is' apparent from the fact that nearly every pupil in the public_schools is a member of one of the bands. In order to give a tangible evidence of membership they concluded to furnish all who belong to the bands with a badge. As these cost money the entertainment was arranged to raise funds, and from appearances it will be a financial and social’ succe; At a meeting of the ladiés yesterday reports were made hg‘ the several com- mittees to the effct that excellent talent can be had. Several artists from the Orpheum will assist in the entertainment and Rabbl Voorsanger. ex-Congressman Maguire and others will speak. It is be- lieved that the exercises will be opened ber Mayor Phelan. The event is to take place in Metropolitan Temple. — el HE HAS ONE FRIEND. Mecheli’s th—Cltcl;i;g Dog Would Follow Him to Jail. _The up-country Judges have no use for men who violate the fish and game laws, for when one comes before them the sen- tence is usually severe. E. Mecheli, the Italian who was arrested| for killing fish in Russian River by the use of dynamite, was taken to Ukiah, where he pleaded guilty before a Justice of the Peace. As the Superior Court was in session he was taken before that tribunal and again ac- knowledging his guilt w ntenced to pay a fine of $250 or serve 12 days in the County Jail, was assisted in his fllegal business by a large black dog, which retrieved t fish from the water for his master. Deputy Vogelsang had no little 4 in_slipping the prisoner away dog at Cloverdalé, faithful the seéming determined to follow his owner | If Mecheli is unable to ralse_the money to pay the fine it is be- lieved that the officers will allow the dog to share {ts master's imprisonment. LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. She Wasn’t the Girl. Denny—The gur-rul thot Ol marry must be loike foine silk. Nora—An’ how is thot? Denny—Not shrink whin it comes to washing.—Chicago News. ————— Beard and Bacilli. The man with the stunning brown beard At the bacteriologists sneered, “What ‘Whiskers breed germs? Bah!” Yet rumor affirms That he with the fair sex is queered.. —Detroit Journal. even to prison. —_————— The Ethics of the Case. Clara—I suppose now that I have broken off the engagement I should return his presents. Maud—Not necessarily. I should cer- tainly wait until I was engaged to some one else.—Detroit Free Press. Rt s No Distance Specified. Columbus Journal. Swellguy—You say vou'll guarantee this horse to_trot in 2:407 Horse Dealer—Yes, sir. wellguy—You mean a mile in 2:40? orse Dealer—Well, 1 didn’t name any distance, sir; but he'll go as far as he can in 2:40. e PGS The Fool and His Money. Indianapolls Journal. “The fool and his money"’—the oracular border began. “‘Are soon married,” savage bachelor. Strategy. Catholic Standard and Times. Wife—Dear _me! How are we ever to get through this erowd? Husband—Raise your umbrella and walk Tl follow. A interrupted the ahead. This was the fellow w"“\ ANS‘ZT.EB.S TO CORRESPONDENTS, SEATTLE FIRE — Subscriber, Ct What is known as the great fire of Se: tle occurred on June 6, 1889. EW YORK SEVENTH—H. M. B., City. There is no such organization as the “New York Seventh of Regulars,” sequently this department cannot tell ts_ present whereabi s during the Cuban AN ESTATE—W. L. ity. In the set- | tling of an estate in California, the court uts and where mpaign.” upon a proper showing that it is he best interest that.the property be . order it ld, and a legal deed will ass; but befo ich action is taken by the court all parties in interest are noti- fied of the proposed action. TO REMOVE RUST—A. S., City. The | following is given as a recipe for the | removal of rust from nickel-plated ware: Cover the stains with oil or grease for a few days; then remove rust by rubbing with a little ammonia. If this does not remove the rust, try very dilute hy - | chloric acid, and when dry polish with | tripoli or whitening. RIGHT TO TTAL’H—‘\\'HL(-I’, Alameda, Cal. Not being informed by your letter of inquiry in what State the rty ob- tained a judgment by default impc sible to tell if the individual would have a right to attach the property of the party against whom the judgment was obtained. But the toils of the road will. seem nothing When I get to the end of the road can be found. AND L RAILS—-J. 8. COTTON H., City. ommerce and Finance of the United States,”” a Government publication, | does not show that any cotton or steel rails were imported from Mexico into the United States during the year 1898, but on the contrary it shows that during that year there was ported from the United States into xico cotton unmanufac- tured of the value of $1,321.473 and manu- factured to the amount of $415,910. —_———— Cal. glace fruit dc per b at Townsend's, ® e Special information supplied daly to business houses and public men by the P ipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont. gomery street. 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SAN FRANCISCO BELLES OF LONG AGO. Greatest collection of old-time photographs ever printed in a San Francisco daily. World’s ILLING ADVENTURE IN YOSEMITE. Most Exciting Chapters from Stephen Crane’s Story, “Active Service.” THE FUNNIEST BEAR STORY OF THE YEAR. e ALL BIG FEATURE STORIES IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL.