The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1899, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1899. OCTOB JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietes. kddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ephone Main 1565, .......2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 15%4. EDITORIAL RO DELIVERED BY C. Sing T Terms by Mall, le Month LY CALL One Year. L ters ere authorized to recelve subscriptions. s coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... ..908 Broadway KROGNESS, sing, Marquette Ballding, Chicago. Menager Forelgn Ad NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.... . Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR 296 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. News Co; Great Northern Hetel] Sremont House; Auditortum 1 NEW YORK NEWS STANDS, Waldor{-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Unlem Equare; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE -..Wellingtoa Hotel é. k. ENGLISH, Corrcepondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 30C Hayes street, open untl! 9:30 o'clock McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street. open until 10 o'clock. 22C* Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clack. 1098 Valencia street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Tweaty* second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clocly AMUSEMENTS. ba nia “Hotel T vy School for Scandal. ectalties. , at 1 ock, Furniture, er 21, at 11 o’'clock, Horses, October 24, at PHELAN ON PARTIES. Iall on the 17th inst. ing M pride and own party hor this descriptio the peo- en a Committee of < not in s e the Toryism he people.” Mr. d th city where there are so resence m ypened 1 ampai \ against Hor- 1as affirmed 1 not fight 1 now is tics. Since heroic strug gainst g forward the ame of a p of the Mayor ch policy was adopted solely to get who beli in putti tached to the 1 the mum policy for ce ain persons, but party men t to claim victories for the party, no ynal triumph is attempting to reinstate bbed in his conven- re not ashamed of their policy of insult to his political 10se who were 1 o lure men who , he adopts ¢ as an appeal to the instincts of his par- Therefore the passionate and untrue wers. zations of all Republicans in which he is it as he goes on his difficulties in- ctable Democra who recognize the s in a free government, are not in the ble opponents “traitors,” i They regard them as f liffering as to methods of interpre- eral constitution, but with a stake ry equal to that of Demo- y of the people of this city and on on party lines, are Republicans. o hard with California and San Fran- are such bad people and bad citizens describes When the roll is called for active business men, ma ufacturers and employers of labor in this city a very large proportion of them are found to be Re- ning the ying enterprises of the Mr. Phelan’s organs continually refer They are stimulating and st we h producing and wage p: community. contempt to Hon. Horace Davis as a man en- ged in ress and manufacturing for the last <cing a fortune for himself in regarded as unfitting him direction of public business. It is a charge that cannot be brought against Mr. Phelan. He never we ay to get His millions were earned for him, and he had no harder labor than was | required to inherit them. Inheritance of a fortune is no offense, but sneering at men who have to make their own fortunes is an indecency. L . As a representative of Pacific Coast merchants on the Interstate Commerce Commission General N. P. Chipman seems to be as welcome and popular as a bull in a china shop. E......Market and Third Sts., S. F | Vaudeville every afterncon and | traitor. | , | surrender from the colonies, we should grant them ENGLISH }.I?ERTY. { DAILY study of current events Great Britain may be useful to Americans. Our domestic imperialists have for more than a year urged Americans to consider the glory of Brit- ish arms, the richness of the wide | scope of British trade and the merits of British policy | | in the crown colonies. This been done to le'ul" nto copying the imperial policy of that country, | dless of tk et that while it conforms to the W constitution it is repugnant to ours. The nstitutional empire can be ex- free institutions of a constitu- )t be extended by force. ialists have now the right to in | 4 3ritish conquests institutions of a ¢ tended by force. tional republic ca American anti- on of their countrymen to the tolerance 1 the att opposition in Great Britain. While the Chicago Tribune is calling for the arrest and execu- tion of Carl Schurz, J. Sterling Morton, | George H. Boutwell and Bishop Potter as | traitors because they declare that self-govern- | ment ceases to be seli-government when it ced upon an unwilling people, in Great Britain great eminence, members of Parliament fc subjects of in the Lords and Commons, are not checked nor re- b icy that h or ked for t | eir expressions of dissent from the pol- forced the war on the two South African republic. It is a strange situation. While Ameri- | can imperialist newspapers are telling our citiz that it is unpatriotic in them to express sympathy for the Bo Englishmen in all walks of life are showing sympathy and freely expressing it. In this we do not refer to the Irish members of the House of Commons, who habitually go to the | extremes in criticism of England that seem to be war- ranted by seven centuries of oppression to their | country. They stand apart from, the Englishmen | who arraign the policy of Chamberlain and Cecil | Rhodes. Mr. Stanhope, Mr. Evans and Sir William | Vernon Harcourt, in the Commons, have announced that while they will support the Government in the prosecution of “this unhappy war,” they regand it as unjustified and wrong. Harcourt said: “The British nation has a right to know what the propos of the Government are. | The Government has no right to involve the nation | a war in the dark. I disassociate myself altogether | om responsibility of any kind for the though I am prepared to | in the unhappy conflict in | Mr. Stanhope, of one of the es of England, which has | ors and scholars to build e measures which have led to this wa support the Governm are engage ished fam 1 sting 1 soldiers anc np the glory of Great in, sai “The British | High Commissioner in h Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, is lacking in the qualities necessary to a dip- | lomat in his position. I am convinced that the Sec- y of State for the Colonies and the British High ret Co years been fully | determined that war and w: should end this crisis, and that they have worked for this consum- | | mation during the last year.” In this position there is a lot of hard-headed Eng- at kind of sturdy patriotism which ioner have for the last tw se may have t riere to save the empire from itself. { These I men are not misled by specious t;\!k‘ about de e Providence of God. They pro- | | pose to drag ) light the machinations which involved the country in war. | riots of the style of Charles James They are p Fox, who d the American Revolution said ‘in | the Commons: “The noble Lord who moved the | amendment said that we were in the dilemma of Ii that I am for abandoning America. 1g or abandoning America. we are re- 1 conqu ducec %n- not-eonscientiously agree to oney for so destructive, so ignoble a pt T ying on of a war commen: ed with | _ | no other view than to the lom.” | They have the spirit who in | Parliament sa “You s merican | colonists to lay ¢ will do just as you pl queror say les Had y id you b of | They are Engli like Chatham, whose son | résigned his commission in the her thaa | fight against seli-government in and who said in the House of Lords in the second year of our Revolution: “We have tried for unc ional “sur- render; try what can be gained by unconditional redress. This country has been the gressor. You have made descents upon their coasts; you have burned their towns, plundered their country, made | war upon the inhabitants, confiscated their pm’pcrl)’,' proscribed and imprisoned their persons. I do there- unconditional fore affirm that, instead of exacting I would sell the shirt off my back to assist in proper measures, properly and wisely conducted; but I wduld not part single shilling to the present Ministers. Theirf plans are | founded in destruction and disgrace. Tt is, my Lords, a ruinous and destructive war; it is full of dangers; | it teems with disgrace and must end in ruin. If T | were an American as I am an Englishman while a | foreign troop was landed in my country T would never lay down my arms! Never! never! never A session of the American Congress is approach- | |ing. Let us hope that it will vindicate the belief that | American liberty of expression is no less than that | liberty was in England a century and a quarter ago, | and no less than it is now. | G unconditional redress. with a " THE SITUATION IN CUBA. i INERAL WILSON'S report to the War De- | partment on the situation in the provinces of Matanzas and Santa Clara, in Cuba, which are under his command, affords nothing of encourage- de- ment to the annexation schemers. The General clares the provinces are orderly and free from | turbances. “The Cubans,” he says, “have received us everywhere, and at all times, with every evidence of friendship, and in most localities with a cordiality that indicates genuine gratitude. The Cuban army has | given no trouble; it maintained order until relieved } of the responsibility. Its members had generally been | disbanded and gone to work before the United States sent out its paymasters with the money allotted to them from the treasury. One newspaper at Cien- fuegos, claiming to speak for the Cuban army, but actually the mouthpiece of a few dissatisfied officers, has been at times incendiary in its utterances, but the department is absolutely tranquil, life and property | are safe, and there is probably less crime and disorder | here than in any State in the Union.” | Commenting upon such evidences of discontent as | are to be found he says: “The feeling of unrest in these two provinces is due mainly to the suspicion that we do not intend to live up to the voluntary pledge contained in the joint resolution of interven- tion. This feeling is, perhaps, on the increase, andi‘ is encouraged by political agitators and newspapers. | So far as T can discover, the Cuban people in the provinces of this department are now as ready for self-government as they are likely to be at any time | | the only cause of unrest is the fear that we intend to S | war was compa | has been started to organize them as an active and | effective force in the contest. ! well understand that a Democratic victory this year | will be accompanied by a further deerease of that feeling of friendship and gratitude which the Cuban people now entertain toward the United States, as well as by a lack of confidence in the business future, and by a continuance of the depression in the agri- cultyral and commercial interests of the island, if not, indeed, by an actual increase of local disorder.” So strong a statement coming from an official of | such rank ought to have much effect in counteracting | the ambitions and the greeds of the men who would | like the, United States to break faith in order to bring about the annexation of Cuba. Since the people de- sire self-government and are fitted for it, and since z deprive them of it, the best policy we can pursue in the matter is to be true to our traditions and our principles. We entered upon the war with the avowed purpose of making Cuba free and should do that as promptly as possible . THE NEED OF MORE SHIPPING. HOULD any new argument be needed to urge Congressional action” in favor of shipping it can be found in the circumstances | American | of the time. The demand {for transports by the | United States for the Philippine service and by | Great Britain for service ifi carrying troops and munitions of war to the Transvaal has so reduced the available tonnage of the merchant marine of the two countries that there is a scarcity of ships for the re- quirements of commerce, and as a consequence the rates of ocean freights have advanced. Recent advices are to the effect that the advance in British grain rates on the Atlantic since the Trans- vaal war began has been six cents a bushel. That | means of course our people will receive that much | less profit from the grain they send abroad. That | much of increased tax for transportation purposes | has been placed upon the output, and nearly the | whole of it goes to European ship-owners, for they carry upward of go per cent of our total imports and | exports. If such be the result of a contest between Great Britain and a small inland country like the Trans- | vaal, it is easy to foresee that the effect upon our commerce and our industries of a war between the British and some great power would be tremen- With our ocean carrying trade in the hands of foreigners we are exposed to risks in ¢ foreign war. Anything which diminishes the available merchant ships of those nations would be almost as hur "Our experience during tk how important to a nation it is to have a merchant | LG G S i keSS e hCa S G g o o e SR S S S SROI W MDA D I MDA S R SECS S SO SO SO S ) dously disastrou ul to us as to them. 5 i 1e war with Spain showed marine of sufficient extent to render transportation | service to the Government when the emergencies of | war make it necessary. Notwithstanding the Spanish | atively slight, the U d States sorely hampered by lack of transports. It would have been a serious impediment indeed had Spain | ition to wage a longer or a more deter- mined resistance to our arms. All these recent experiences point to the one con- clusion. The upbuilding of an American mcrthan:; marine is not a mere matter of sentiment, but a work | dered imperatively nec of the time. The peace of Europe is by cure. There is no telling when war 1 It is folly, therefore, to leave our commerce exposed | to the hazard of such wars. It must be remembered | that the welfare of almost every one of our indus- tries depends on commerce. ocean transportation is a tax on the producers of all staple articles and on all sorts of exports. There is but one safe course to pursue. Our industries and our commerce should be rendered independent by | the prompt upbuilding of a merchant marine ade- quate to all the needs of our people. B for a united Democra been in conc rend ary by the conditions | no m 1S se- | break out A rise in the rates of THE GOLD DEMOCRATS. T the time the conservative Democratic leaders | were msking such vigorous efforts last sum- | mer to devise a platiorm and find a leader speculation as to what the gold standard Democrats | would do in the States where elections are to be held | this fall. What course they would have pursued had the movement toward harmony met swith any success it is of course impossible to say, but as it is the fol- lowers of Palmer and Buckner in 1896 appear to have decided to cut loose from Democracy altogether for a time at least and to vote straight Republican ticket. Mr. James Caren of Ohio, who was chairman of the State committee of the sound money Democrats | during the Bryan campaign, having been asked re- cently what he thinks the gold Democrats of that State will do in this contest, is reported to have said: “I would say that fully 80 per cent of them will vote for Judge Nash. They say to us that this is a State campaign, and the money question should not be per- mitted to cut any figure. That is possibly true, but the campaign in Ohio this year is being fought on national issues, one of which, as raised in the Demo- cratic State platform, is free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, independent of all the other nations of the earth, and the demand for the renomination of Bryan as the Democratic stan- dard bearer in 1900. The one thing to be consid- | ered is the important bearing an adverse result to the national administration this year in Ohio would have upon the great national contest next year, with Bryan as the Democratic candidate and free silver the issue.”” ~ In Maryland so large a proportion of the sound money Democrats are in favor of acting with the | Republican party in the campaign that a movement | , there was a good deal of | | | a The gold Democrats would put their party organization and the State patronage under the control of the Bryan faction. Tt would then be extremely difficult to win a sound money victory in the Presidential campaign of next year. They are not going to take such chances, and accordingly will join hands with the Republicans for the redemption of the State. Such a course on the part of the sound money Democrats is the inevitable consequence of the com- plete failure of all attempts to get rid of the Bryanite leadership in their own party. It is now evident the | silver'men have control of the Democratic machina and of the Democratic masses. Men who understand the importance of sound finance and who are opposed to intrusting the affairs of the nation to such irre- sponsible men as are now at the head of Democracy can no longer act with that organization even in | State issues. Until Bryanism has been eliminated trom our politics all conservative citizens must stand together. There is no place for a side faction. The only way to make sure of sound finance is to vote for the Republican party and uphold it in every election that comes, whether national, State or municipal. This promises to be a good year to‘start the move- ment for the storage of flood waters, for all prospects in the near future. It is my deliberate judgment that xauy other course will involve unnecessary delay, and |it to experiment with. point to the conclusion there will be an abundance of |MAKE THEM PAY THE WAR REVENUE TAX. ! THE OLD FABLE. B S o e SO SRCI SaCIR SCol e O an a2 L e S S o e The Lion (England)—Come inside, my dear friend. The Fox (the Transvaal)—Thanks, but you must excuse me. while none returns. I notice all % i B B e R e & el L i i S S o O O S O R RO S 2= 3 the footprints point in your direction, —From I COMMENDSTHE CALL’'S HOMESTUDY CIRCLE Rev. E. Nelander's Estimate of the Course of Popular Education Now Running in the Paper. | San Francisco, Oct. 16, 1899. } Editor of The Call—My Dear Sir: I add with pleasure my unqualified commendation of The Call's Home Study Circle. The range of sub- jects, the plan of study and the eminent corps of instructors can- not but commend itself to every one. It is to be hoped that the long winter evenings will be im- rev. B NELANDER, | proved by many in systematic home study ac- cording to the excellent plan of the Home Study | Cizele: Pastor First English Lutheran Church and ex-President Bethany College. z | | Senator Carter of Montana says that Congress did not in- tend that Wells, Fargo & Co. and kindred corporations should | escape it. : ; Helena, Mont., Oct. 14, 1899, Editor The Call, San Francisco, Cal.: Re- plying to yours of recent date, I beg leave to say that it was the intention that the corpora- tions and companies referred to by you should pay the war revenue tax, and if not so provided in the law, an amendment should be passed car- | rying into effect the original intent of the legislative body. Truly yours, CONGRESSMAN JONES OF WASHING-! TON SAYS THAT TELEGRAPH TOLLS SHOULD NOT .BE RAISED TO MEET| THETAX. North Yakima, Wash., Oct. 16, 1899, Editor The Call, San Francisco: Yours of September 26 at hand on my re_ turn home. Yes, the telegraph and express companies should pay the tax and the law should be made free from doubt. Any raise in telegraph rates should be prohibited also. Very truly yours, W. L. JONES, Member Congress, North Yakima, Wash. of $5000, and on the 5th of May, 18%, J. T. Jones, who was also convicted, recelved a like sentence. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NONE AFTER IS3—R., Paralta, Cal No premium is offered by dealers for $ pleces colned after 1834, POULTRY JOURNALS—C. B. W., Sac- - ramento, Cal. There are poultry jour- DAVIS AND WIFE—B. F., City. When | nals published In California, one the Mr. and Mrs. Davis abandoned their pro- | Fancier, at San Jose, and the other the jected trip across the continent in an | Cultivator, at Los Angeles. automobile they returned to New York. | G A CARSON MIN'I'ATLMR., City. In the matter of the Carson mint defalcation, James Heney was sentenced on the 2ith ersfield, Cal. 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