The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1899, Page 6

TRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, EPTEMBER 28, 1899 HE SAN “—_—_—-__——“_—_———-—__—_—_————_——_fl THURSDAY..... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, " hddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ;lHLiCA1'lUA\ OFFICE . .....Mcrket and Third Sts.. S. F ephene Main 1868, LDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephons Main 1874. 15 CENTS PER WEEK. es, & cente. DELIVERED BY CARRIE Single Co £6.00 . 6 monthi 0 3 months 00 CAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, 3 Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. - NEW YORK CO! RRESPONDENT : €. C. CARLTON a. % ......... 4%, .....Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR....: ......29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Bherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auaitorium Hotel. AMUSEMENTS. pheum—Vaudeville. 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Ainition is hardly accurate. t or a century sted in the whole domain of knowledge, and reads with attention the records of the past as well as the events of the day. undertaking to supply the public with a course tudy covering the of Shakespeare, the ievements of renowned artists, the policies of great statesmen of our country, the science and the art of domestic economy, and the education of bo; nd girls in many lines of useful endeavor, The Call does not step beyond the legitimate fields of cc prehensive journalism. It is but another effort to fu nish the reading public with the information it de- persons will be news perennial interest to in- works c at to man es, t0 give cerning matters that are of telligent men and women. ertaking of this kind is one which will com- It has been said the daily furnishes An v mend itself to the public. reading of a well-conducted newspaper The saying is something ygeration, and yet as journalism progresses and ex- Jiberal education. f an ex it tends to become more pands along legitimate lin and more mity no more than a partisan political sheet. With the invention of the telegraph the gathering of news be- came of more importance than the championship of partie 1d the press rapidly developed into mmificent and far-reaching newsgatherin, agencies, which now furnish their readers with daily information from all parts of the globe. 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Our series of home studies will be interesting as matters of leisure reading to all, whether they desire to prosecute any particular study or not, but to those who wish to profit something by their reading and to make themselves masters of a certain phase of litera- | ture, history, art or science, they will be of the high- est value. The articles might be defined as short studies on great subjects by men who understand | them, and a careful reading of any of them will repay the attention of all by something at least of instruc- tion as well as of entertainment. Her British Majesty’s Government has now declared ominously that in all further discussion of the Trans- he same Government did the same 1 should have learned by this time that on is not by any means a disposition of a The Boers know how to shoot. a p quarrel The Mayor of New York has been seriously dis- turbed at a fear that he would lose to Governor Rooseveit the honor of being the first welcoming A ican to shake hands with Admiral Dewey. The coming of the Admiral made unnecessary a function that would have given to him ne. particular distinction. earl; The Mexican Government, so the vivacious cor- ndents report, intends to send some “natural Lorn mountain fighters” after the Yaquis. A few good Indian fighters might be made a judicious ad- dition to the crowd. & re S v i ¥ It is sometimes said that it is as hard as pulling teeth to get money ont of some. people. The scandal in the State Board of Dental Examiners is a very fair indication that some pecple who'want to pull teeth e the money. If a marital knot many times tied will prevent the bond from breaking the granddaughter. of General Grant and Prince Cantactizene ought to'be well mar- ried. yesterday, are in line with the highest ten- | The | The American mind has been | vated to such a degree that it is more or less in- | There was a time when the newspaper was | of welcome to Admiral Dewey. writers | use of the enemy. | prise went for naught and t | pacity. with the spoils of Alaskan mines. { his war chest. | the Atlantic station it was | had trod. | cers were not familiar to us. i n. | die with his tr. {and homely ¢ | ful as a summer lake. a thrill of fear. Dewey had s | wheel turned again and eve | Iz dy’s pocket money in her purse. upon t |as he « | Th {‘ns. but we appreciate all that it meant to our non-maritime States. This country’s coasts | and seaports are its commercial skin, and as no animal body the nati function of exuding the commerce generated in the nation’s body the nation dies. e our pores and Dewey kept them open. | It is for this that his footfall on the Atlantic coast jars a continent into jubilee and | 1e sensibilities of San Francisco like a myriad of globes flashing as the stars. j Like Lincoln, Grant and other Americans whose names will never fade that have | been known of men in this generation, Dewey recurs to the simple ways of his early life, and always in such a way as to tutor his young countrymen for the future responsibilities | ports ar lights t | which are to be theirs. Explairing his arrival in New York ahead of time, he said: “It has been my custom to be a day ahead rather than an hodr behind time.’ : the reason for his achievement. When a boy in Vermont, a subaltern | inand a commodore, observance of that rule kept him at the point liberal educating influence in the com- [ where great things might be, and ready to do them bravely and well. chapter that tells of the world’s sea fights which opens with Salamis. d no line to it, and its accumulating luster gathered in the centuries that lie between seems but the luminous tablet inscribed with the greater light in which | of his character anc officer, a fleet capta He closes the This century will ac | | is written what he ¢ { San Francisco lid. an American city s | est soldier of the seas. DEWEY WELCOME HOME. AN FRANCISCO has the best right of any American seaport to give expression We all remember the first days of the Spanish war, | were crowded with Spanish merchant ships, carrying valuable cargoes, and the bulletin in front of the newspaper.offices in the press triangle on Market street could hardly the brush fast enough to keep up with the wired reports of the capture of these ships | While the crowd cheered itself hoarse and husky every merchant that read the bulletins knew what it all meant to men of their guild engaged in Spanish. commerce. | With their argosies captured and their cargoes the spoil of war, years of careful enter- Le Moloch of war invoked by their erring Government was o | eating up the substance that represented the toil of a lifetime. But Spain had fleets at| U%o sea. The register of her navy showed it superior to ours in ships, speed, guns and ca- ‘ Our merchants knew that unless some factor appeared, till then unknown, the chances at sea were against us, and that for every Spanish merchantman stopped by a shot arid run into an American port with a prize crew on board one or many American ships might fall captive to the enemy, and the misfortunes that fell so thick and- fast upon Spanish trade might be more than duplicated in the destruction of ours. This port ‘aml its deep water commerce were peculiarly exposed. Gold ships were sailing toward us Fur ships from Bering Sea and commerce with hither and farther India, China, Australia and Siberia would be abroad upon the waters, bear- [ing the fortunes and freighted with the solvency of banks and business houses. | Mint and Sub-Treasury coin was piled up counting a hundred millions, and offering to martial enterprise a richer spoil than Persian, Greek or Roman conqueror ever added to Our harbor defenses were untried, and when the Oregon was ordered to demanded that our members of Congress protest against her de- parture, for it left us feeling defenseless and abandoned by our own Government. | But our defense was not in our hills that look upon the sea. ay, 0c- | horizon in waters strange to our people, breaking upon a coast that few American feet It was in the American squadron on the Asiatic coast. The names of its offi- The commodore whose pennon streamed above its flagship | had passed years in the orderly change from land to sea duty, like his brother officers; had arked time in the line of promotion with the rest and when it came, tardily, had taken it in the matter of course routine of the department. { certainly that he had the quality which makes a man wait a lifetime in the service, ready [to rise to an emergency when it comes, or ready to close his eyes on sea and shore and ined capacity untried and passing with him. But Dewey, trained in.a hard chool, which gave Ethan Allen to history in the Revolution and the Ran- soms in our later wars, and to their country’s statesmanship and jurisprudence Brad- | ley, Solomon Foote, Phelps and their peers, had shown himself ready for great deeds by [the self-command and preparation which make them possible, and on that 1st of May, that is to stand forever foremost among the days accented by the high action of men, he be- | somed our enemy from the sea and made the ocean rom continent o continent as peace- Thence on our merchantmen spread their sails as safely as a song bird her wings, and our great commercial exchanges with far countries went on without The sad misfortunes of war rested on the trade of our enemy alone. naled our merchant flag, “All's well,” from the bridge of his ship and every v sail unfurled. The vast treasure in our vaults was safe as a ! The superiority of the Spanish navy was shown to be on the register only, and not he sea. The men he fought were the bravest of the brave. We salute them now id then, but they had met their master and they fell. e people inland may not appreciate all that the victory of Manila Bay meant to| onal pores are closed and the national skin under the guns of an enemy ceases its feelsit all. As a commercial city she salutes Dewey as her deliverer | from peril. As a seaport she hails hini as one that made the ocean safe to commerce. As 1e brings her patriotic gratitude to gild the fame of her country’s great- West Indian waters In the It was below our The Government could not know an live without a skin, when Our ’ No more need be said in revelation ENGLAND AND THE BOERS. | FEW days ago it was said in England that the i A time has come to end duality in South Africa. This means that England proposes to tolerate no government but her own in South Africa. Her 1 policy is far-sighted. The Transvaal Republic occu- ipics the peculiar position of being an independent Government without being a member of the family of nations. It has no international existence, no ex- ternal contacts and-is not represented anywhere abroad by Ministers or Consuls. In their anxiety for they had conquested from the wilderness, and for the right to make their own laws and generate civil au- thority among themselves and for themselves, the | Boers surrendered to England’s demand that she have | control of their international interests. Now England has confused the world’s judgment as to the scope of her authority and makes demands on the Transvaal that, granted, will destroy the do- which the Boers gave up their right to a place in the family of nations. England claims the right to dictate the terms of the franchise in the Boer republic, and goes further by requiring that English shall be adopted as the lan- guage used in the Volksraad! To submit to these de- mands is to abolish the republic. The Boers speak Dutch, not English. To make the use of the latter tongue obligatory in the Volksraad is to make them ineligible to seats in their own Parliament, and to admit English gubjects to the franchise without giv- | ing up their allegiance to Great Britain is a thing so fantastic as to be insufferable. But England calls it merely a means “for securing such substantial and immediate representation for the Uitlanders as will enable them to secure for them- selves that fair and just treatment which was formally promised them in 1881.” No such means to that end were. promised in 1881, or at any other time. The Uitlanders were promised nothing more than such administration of the laws of the republic as would | prevent the denial of justice. To say that this meant their retention of allegiance to Great Britain while voting in the republic, and forcing the language of the | people out of their own Parliament, is to make a demand to which the Boers cannot submit until they are conquered by arms. They are a small and weak commonwealth, in a far country, but they are the people of William the Silent, and they are better dead in battle, surviving themselves in a memory that will in all the future inspire others to stand for their [ honor and fight for their rights, than living in the independence at home, for sole control of the land | mestic independence and self-government to secure | | to accept, and whose conditions she cannot compel | covered a means of curing | goat lymph into the baseness and cowardice of peaceful surrender to such arrogant assertion of power. No wonder that all thoughtful Englishmen oppose these unjustifiable and intolerable demands of their Government. They know that throughout the ages power grown so great that it forgets justice has been crushed by persistent aggression against the weak, and so they tremble for the empire. The Boers may be crushed, but in their fate the other victims of im- perial rule may be nerved to concert of purpose, and the empire, smitten all along its far-stretched battle line, may get a mortal wound. The London mob is bellowing for war. The mob always does, in all countries. - But nations are not built on their rabble, nor maintained by the unthink- ing. Pretending to ask justice for the.Uitlanders, Eng- land’s terms are subversive of justice to the Boers themselves. Her ‘real purpose is to end duality in South Africa. Why is duality there any worse than duality on this continent, which we share with her?> We live at peace with her flag floating over the Dominion oi Canada, and we deny and defy her right to dictate our laws of naturalization and expatriation. Her subjects retain their allegiance and sojourn among us, without the franchise which we cannot compel them us to change. If what she demands in South Africa is right there it would be right everywhere. Let her assert it against us, and see what would happen. e r—————c s The Missouri physician who claims to have dis- insanity by injecting patient deserves credit for originality of thought if for nothing else. His sys- tem, moreover, opens up glittering possibilities. 1f an erratic crank can be brought to sanity by the Iymph of a goat why may we not expect to see the dullness of idiocy made lively by an injection of monkey lymph? American residents of Guatemala are rfising a rumpus and want the United States Minister recalled. The spirit of rebellion seems to be infectious in the Central and South American republics. But then Guatemala has been on good terms with herself for some time. Jerry Simpson of Kansas, for all the rumor that he does not wear socks, seems in a fair way to become a golfer. At any rate, since he was hissed and hooted the other night at Wichita he may be classed as a | consideration for such an exchange. | theless, | OUR NATIONAL DUTY. The Question of Expansion and Annexation of the Philippines. * By Frank Perhaps no people ever undertook to re- cant as much, renounce as much or jus- tify as much as the American people have undertaken to do in the last year and a half. It is a painful {llustration of the Indian's just conclusion when he said, “White man is mighty uncertain.” BEven the Indian would hardly have supposed that this great and free Government could have heen guilty of such palpable and in- excusable inconsistency. We entered upon the war with Spain prefaced by the solemn declaration that it was in the in- terest of civilization and law, and to pre- vent‘that country from exereising its Jurisdiction over distant people without their consent, and with the broad and open declaration to the world that upon our part the war was without the motive or the intention or desire to acquire any supremacy or emoluments. And yet we are conducting this same war with a bloody war for jurisdiction over these same people we sought to liberate In order to estabish our military authority over them by military force and without their consent. And all this for doubtful gain and questionable expediency, and in sub- version of the first cardinal and funda- mental principles of our Government. This is what our President very apuy called “criminal aggression,” and so the world knows it and so it is; and the pity is if we are going to carry out such & policy that we made so many humiliat- ing and false pretenses. To my mind the most alarming result from this war is the necessity of a great standing army. Our position doubtless requires, or at least justifles, a first-class navy, but so long as we remain in the Western Hemisphere (In other words, at home), it is perfectly clear that our in- telligent citizen soldiers could bhe mar- shaled, equipped and at the front ready to bring defeat, as they have always done, to any attempted foreign invasion; but if we are to continue our jurisdiction over remote countries we must be ready in the event of an insurrection there to repress it with an army trained and ready for the purpose. In the event of a war with a great foreign power, which we could meet and defeat at home with our citizen sol- diers, we must have as well organized and as large a standing army as the country with which we are to go to war, otherwise our dependencies will be wrested from us. To maintain such an army will cost ten times more than our colonies are worth. A great military establishment and a great standing army has never been main- ained for any length of time in a repub- lic without the destruction of the repub- lic. That such a result could follow in this country and that we could maintain an unrcpublican form of government with a great standing army and yet pre serve republican institutions, is a fallai hardly needing refutation, and a large standing army must be maintained if we irsue this policy of foreign territorial acquisition and ageression. The humiliating way in which public sentiment may be perverted and become accustomed to unusual and inconsistent conditions and suggestions is very forcibly illustrated by what is appar- ently proposed —to be done with a certain royal gentleman called the Sultan of Sulu, who holds jurisdiction over the Sulu group of islands adjacent to the Philippines. We have sent an Em- bassador or Minister who might properly be styled an envoy extraordinary (for he is certainly extraordinary in his position) to negotiate a treaty with this royal freak for the purpose of having him recognize the suzerainty of the United State: From a democratic point of view rather like the'idea of a suzer- alnty of a republican government over a royval subject. It is such a sublime and perfect somersault of the law of nature and nations that it is refreshing to be- hold. In oth words, we as a demo- cratie people cannot recognize the divine right of kings nor have one of our ow that is, not to rule over us, but appar- ently we can have one over whom we may have the amusement of ruling. A king cannot rule over us, but we can rule over him and his subjects, being at the same time his subjects and our own. We all, and especially our yellow journals, have been for months spluttering and fuming like a yellow-stone paint pot over the horrible fact that one Mr. Roberts of Utah, who has been sealed to three or four alleged lawful wives, Is going to_sit in Congress. It is stated with great fer- vor and unction that this ought not to be allowed (and I am disposed 10 think rightly). The programme. however, as agreed by our envoy extraordinary to the Sultan of Sulu, lemnly announced to be that he is to recognize our sovereignty and that thereafter we are to have juri: diction over his kingship and his sub- jects. He is, nevertheless, to carry on and retain his old job of governing, under our jurisdiction, and we are to pay him $10,000 a year, which, of course, is a very unnecessary = amount for a tropical sovereign if he did not have to support a harem of a score of wiv more or less, but if we are going to have a king and a haem we must pay the expenses of both. The two points most difficult to agree upon were first, whether this shock- headed, spider-legged clown amcng Kings and king among clowns would allow the slaves of his dominifon (and therefore ours) to buy their liberty at the market price and would carry the American flag, and It was especially desired that the American flag should be carried, and it seems to me that the point Is a very good ope. It is certainly important to know whether or not the American fla is to spread its folds over a king an over a harem and over a slave market, “where a slave may buy his liberty at the market price.” Tt is the “flag of the free and the brave,” and ours is “a land without a serf, a servant or a slave.” That is, we have so said and so assumed. The question is: Is it true; if so, is it to continue to be true? It may be com- pensation sufficient in some minds that we are expandihg over more territory, more people and more wealth. But un- less we are a degenerate and forgetful people there ought to be no adequate A country cannot be *‘half slave and half free.” This cannot be a land of free men and. of Suhfncls, a land of homes and harems, and over all these there cannot float one flag, at least as we know it and love it. Although it may never be ac- complished, ‘the suggestion ought to turn the face of every true American away from this unholy, undemocratic and un- American enterprise, I notice that great force is placed upon the fact that Spain for 300 years had ruled the Philippines, that her jurisdiction was undoubted and continuous. That it was rightful or with the consent of the gov- erned, however, is not pretended. his continued and undisgputed jurisdiction and sovereignty of 300 yvears over the Philip- pine Islands and the nine million !nhnbr- ants thereof we bought and paid therefor twenty million dollars. Therefore it is our own. It can be proven by every ut- terance ever made upon the subject by any American that sovereignty assumed by military force carried out and perpet- uated without the consent of the gov- erned s absolutely a fundamental wrong. It creates and carries with it no right and no authority that can be bought or sold or exercised, Never- with an inconsistency inde- scribable, while we ourselves have most openly and publicly and continuously pro- claim that it was an iniquity and a shame and a wrong, and without right; we have bought this iniquity and wrong for $20, solemnly and with great assumption of the di- vine right of somebody to rule somebody else, we have assured our- selves and the world that we have & most perfect, legal and undisputed and moral title to the Philippines. Every- body knows and everybody has said that Spaln had no right to the Philippines; that she had ruled them by the force of arms_wrongfully, un]uatlz and without any right or authority whatever. Tt is fundamental in law and in common sense that a person or a country who purchases monarchical a wrong exercised without right acquires ~ nothing. It is by this rule, of which we have been the chief opponent in the world, that ‘we have no more right because we bought Spain’s wrong, ourselves to rule the Phil- ippines, than 'we would have to go and subjugate the inhabitants of Norway or Sweden, or Switzerland or France, and this is so obvious and so well sustained by our own principles and our own argu ments and our own declarations that It is a wonder that it was ever promulgated. e argument nowadays most in- dulged in is the old argument of intimida- tion, and while I have no patience with the man who would wish to defeat or destroy the armies of our country, the use of the word “traitor” has been far too generally and freely indulged in. “hoot mon,” | Looking "at the present war and the oresent policy as un-American, it would PART II. . H. Short. be easy for an anti-expansionist to say that the expansionist-was a traitor to everything that was American or dear to an American, but a traitor is a criminal and a man who proceeds howsoever ill- visedly without the intention to destroy or defeat his country, but as he considers for {ts best interest is never _a traitor. The most used argument Dy | all expansionists is that by the| agitation of the anti-expansion doc-| trine at this time and the dis-| sensions thereby created in this country, | the Philippines have been encouraged to g0 to war, and have since been en- couraged to prosecute the same. It is| rather refreshing to have the people who | advocate a pollcy the price of which is unhappy and unfortunate war place all the responsibility and blame upon those who opposed the gouc_v and would have averted the war. It is claimed but for the exercise of free speech, the protest of citizens against their country adopting a course that was considered unwise, im- politic and un-American, the Philippines would never have gone to war, Such a result may be in a degree unfortunate, if true, but that it would be a reason or | justification that the right of free speech should be silenced and that American citizens should not protest against their country adopting a dangerous and ruinous roncy is a little too far behind in the history of the world and too well deter- mined to the contrary to be now open to argument. We have a very good illus- tration of this argument and a most ex- cellent answer thereto in the proceedings | before the British Parliament at the time the war was brewing with the American colonfes, and it was claimed that those |y, who gspoused. the American cause and who, led by Mr. Pitt, did not hesitate to denounce the course of England, their own country, and defended the 'course of the insubordinate colonies, were trait- | ors to England and giving aid, comfort and encouragement to the Americans. Mr. Pitt has been of all foreign states- men our ideal, and if he is not, by reason of our imperialistic policy and tendency, to be sét aslde along with the Declaration of Independence, the farewell address of George Washington and the rights. of man, he is about as good authority as | could be quoted outside, possibly, of some Americans of the first rank. In reference to the criticisms heaped upon himself and those supporting his policy and defending the position of the American colonies, Mr. Pitt, in his great speech upon the subject in the British Parliament, used this lan- guage: “Gentlemen, sif, have been charged with giving birth’ to sedition in America. They have spoken their senti- ment with freedom agalnst this unhappy act, and_that freedom has become their crime. Sorry I am to hear the liberty f speech in this house imputed as a But the imputation shall not dis- ge me. It is a liberty I mean to ex- | No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it. It is a liberty which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited by; he might have desisted from his project.” The gentleman tells us Amer- ica is obstinate. 1rejoice that America has resisted,” together with further remarks to the same effect. It would certainly | indicate that Mr. Pitt in his loyal advo- | v | | of the rights of man as he saw them was about as treasonable in his ar- raignment of his country’ })ull(‘y as the | most radical expansionist of these days. As Mr. Pitt remarked that the imputa- | tioh made would not ‘discourage him, it is probably quite as true in this country | that those who from love of a democratic | ystem of government oppose the advanc- | ing policy of imperialism will not be dis- | couraged from a steadfast advocacy of | the policy they believe to be right, av- | ing a right to believe in their own minds | that if anybody could be guilty of trea- | son it would be those who are subvert- ing republican government and demo- | cratic principles to an unwarranted and | unjustitiable imposition of power upon a of the word is narrow minded i. Those opposed to expansion forcign people, and who are more | nearly %umy of treason than any| others n this country. But for | the reason above stated, the use| and un-| have bee “Copperheads, termed ‘‘traitors,” ories. "' ‘‘Aunties” and the like, evidencing a disposition to reduce a legit- imate discussion to the level of a prize ring riot and apparently without much thought as to the use of the words. A Tory was an American who during the | Revolution sympathized with and advo- | cated the right of England to continue its arbitrary rule over us without our | consent. So upon principle a Tory is an | expansionist, and the only Tory that | could exist in this war would be a Fili- | pino who gave us aid and comfort in at- tempting to impose our rule on his coun- trymen. A Copperhead was one opposed | to freeing the slaves and contended | we had no right to continue to subject them to involuntary servitude. So upon | principle he agreed with the doctrine that the consent of the governed is unneces- | sary, so naturally beiongs go the rank of the Imperialists. An Auntie or Ante is assumed as one always wrong. In other words state your own question and move that the affirmative is always right and shut off debate. Call names without reference to their application. Appeal to God and nature and, without waiting for a reply, and you have an expansion argu- ment brought down to date and the American Republic irrevocably embarked on a crusade of imperialism. Senators Edmunds, Hoar Burrows and Hale, ex- Speaker Reed, ex-President Harrison, David Starr Jordan, Senator White and men of such repute make quite a dis- tinguished galaxy of traitors, Tories, Cop- perheads and Aunties. The list, if com- pleted, would indicate that the financial and commercial element in this Govern- ment was somewhat alarmingly in ad- vance of its brains and statesmanship as ! heretofore understood. | ‘We have two classes of people advocat- | Ing expansion, one fervent but ill-advised Christian enthusiasts who say that it is the hand of Providence, the irresistible force of God's will that we cannot stay, and that we must extend our jurisdiction and bring Christianity to those people. Unmindful that Christ was the prince of | peace and told his disciples that his doc- trine should be promulgated without | money and without price, and that his representatives should journey without the aid of the sword or man’s govern- ! ment, bringing his power to the attention of mankind, freely and in love and broth- erly kindness. 1t is to the shame of the Christian world that a doctrine so beauti- ful should be brought to any people or thought to be heralded by a great na guns of inconceivable destructiv power, great military force, Mauser rifles and death-dealing instruments; heralding the coming of Christ and with little less absurdity heralding the coming of tie of the free and the brave. ‘The other advocates of the same theory of irresistible force are not the Christian but the scientific people, who say that it is a cosmos force whereby we are work- ing out our irresistible destiny to an ir- resistible end; by the force” of which same argument if the right person should appear proclaiming himself the Lord's anointed, cominf as the representative of nature’s great laws to assume imperial Jurisdiction over this people, we would of necessity, but not of choice, hail this our new Caesar. The whole theory of irre- sistible Providence, the whole theory of a natural force beyond our control, is so Orlental, dogmatic, inhuman and un- American that it ought to be buried at once. This Government is not a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea, but this is they good 0ld American ship of state guided and controlled by American manhood, Ameérican independence and I trust ulti- mately by American consistency. We entered Manila and destroyed the Spanish fleet without consent. We were never for a day a captor in the Manila | harbor or in the Philippine Islands, un- less we chose to be. If we do wrong, if we go wrong, we, the American people, not Providence | are to blame, or any irresistible force of nature, and while it may seem that- the policy has gone so far that it cannot be stopped or averted, I have always had an abiding confldence in the Inteliigence of the American people and In their loyalty to the fundamental principles of their Government. It is well enough to talk of the great race of modern nations for commercial supremacy. We have succeeded in get- ting our share of the wealth and com- merce of the world without subverting or abandoning democratic doctrines or the principles u‘ron which our Government was founded. It is not now necessary in this race to abandon any single principle. If it were necessary I would be one to say that aboslute commercial supremacy of the world was purchased at too dear a price if it were by the abandonment of the least of the real principles of this Government or our real independence, or the doctrine that the rights o?xenan are al- ways first and that the rights of property follow. As we are now situated we are in the undl!;duted control of the best portions of one e of the Atlantic Ocean and | | to key down to Mr. | “Macbeth.” | opera one side of the Pacific, so situated we can. not be at disadvantage with any ot power in competition for_trade or ¢ merce on either ocean. So it is neit right as a matter of principle or exped| as a matter of policy to abandon tr Western Hemisphere and the Monroe d trine for the purpose of conguests and jurisdiction over the Eastern Hemisphere and its inhabitants. “THE IDLER" I3 PRESENTED AT THE ALCAZAR There has been a slight misdeal of the play cards at the A ar this wee!l Indeed, it is a question in my mir whether “The Idler” should have beer played at all. True, the drama is a limited literature and that wondrous thing called the masterplece is not var nd frequent in its specimens. s of “The Idler” ~class skould masterpie should not be. Why coquette clumsily h the unwholesom A blister broadly and badly sct Will not _better the health modern culture or the lack ¢ it, and ugliness is excusable only in it usefulness, Are you any mote moral tha you were before you saw it, or any mor charitable? Plays of “The Idler” patt are.not written to amuse, understai The misgiven parts are Sir Henry Hi ing and Simeon Strong, for Mr. Ki a character actor, and as Harding in the third act climax (is it a climax?) thous filled with wrath and earnestness, mak a bad matter worse, while the man wl could be Stmeon Strong, plaving youn thing love parts, with the shadow an blast of his adered brother's murder in his heart, has not yet been born. The play has been generously and carefully staged, and infinite pains is apparent in its rehearsal. Mr. Ormonde,save where his silences are a little too elaborate and repressions a_ trifle monotonous, is_emphatically good as Mark Cross. Miss Foster has never done better work than her Lady Harding. Miss Howe is quite at home as M Cross. Helen Henry is an effective Kate Merryweather, and the minor parts are creditably filled. ‘Am I mistaken, or is everybody trying Ormonde, forgetting that to act according to their situation, and not aceording to any model, however “Innocent As "’ is the attraction. sTimh C};ARLOTT"‘ THOMPSON. Midweek Theater Notes. The Columbia announces three plays to fill the week following the production of “Marie Antoinette.” They are ‘*“Much Ado About Nothing” “Mary Stuart” and Modjeska has won _her laurels ‘in- these plays, and has now but to wear them. b The Orpheum, on _account of thelr popularity, has_extended the engagement of Terry and Lambert one week on its The bill _this week has drawn s. Next week a_ Hawallan trio do a novel and Felix Morris re- turns in *“The \;:g:\b‘nnd.." “The Drum Major's Daughter,” a big dra’];'l?lg card for the Grand Opera-house, ziv. place on Monday to “Rip Winkle. AR ok “Martha and Othello”” have tested the | capacity of the Tivoli, but will be with- awn at the close of the week, to be e med by - “The Mikado," = for four performances, and four nights of grand “Aida,” ‘Cavalleria,” ‘‘Pagliacci” 2 ““Carmen.” and “C: AE i The California Theater will reopen on Sunday night with Ben Hendricks in his Swedish _ dialect comedy-drama “A Yenuine Yentleman.” b The feature of the amateur performance at the Chutes this evening is an Amazoun march by profession . At the California this . evening and on Friday as well the performance of “Marie Antoinette” will be attended by theater parties of officers of the Montana Regiment. e e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 'O RACETRACK—F. D, The main entrance to is on SACRAME: Aetna Mine, Cal. the racetrack in Sacramento street. i BRI LANGUAGES—W. M., City. The exact number of languages spoken is not defi- nitely known, but it is estimated that the number of languages and dialects exceeds 5000. flush” in poker is a straight or sequence, all of the same suit. For_ instance, the ace, deuce, trey, four and five of dia- monds make a straight or royal flush. TO THE LADRONES—A. D. R., City. There is no regular line of vessels between San Francisco and the Ladrone Islands. A v 1 Jeaves this port now and then dispatched by a local firm. This depart- men cannot advise ‘‘a young man as to the chances for setting up in business there.” Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's, * _———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen;?n, 510 Mont-~ gomery street. Telephone M: 1042, ¢ —_——— Robbed a Soldier. Harry Vaughn, a boy 16 years of age, was arrested yesterday afternoon by De- tectives Ryan and O'Dea on a charge of petty larceny. 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