The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1899, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 1899. MISCELLANEOQOUS. ’ IFEREENERN 3 [ H [ ] g TS B i = % 9 g ATTOSIEN'S BIG STORE WILL BE ENLARGED. 5 * e )‘-* : ’1‘ The phenomenal increase in our business, which 2 R ENTIRE BUILDING | has almost doubled since last year, makes greater ~ Be Added to the ’ facilities absolutely essential at once. We have ’\ | e ‘;"fi;“:"“ | leased the lot adjoining us on Six'eenth street: . we are now erecting a building on same, which r il be added to this store, thereby taking in the entire block and making ours the Lar Furniture Store on the Coast. Th's remarkable growth is due to selling ly reliable merchandise at much lower prices than our competitors. This Rebuilding Sale will bring you in touch with the -] 2] . . . Lowest Prices Ever Quoted in San Francisco. ] 1 | | £ Furni Bl T £ Furnitare Bargains. The Lace CurtainSale ] g, B R R w ‘headrest, the | ‘T —the greatest collection ever G $3.00 | BARGAINS FROM (U, by our 3 | FRANCE ives. “ome -~ JSlon ation: ";;’; Liong | SWI:I‘ZER:NA;)ID. ;“T f‘,‘r“‘. : n;(l‘ T ihamessiar | st S pdlodes i phey e regu rning if possible 1l give our ; (.00 = le a better opportunity iy 1;3”“ ]hv:fm.mf_\' “""q of inte | a1 elz nats ot liGoking swer the: pritts el S | B E lous “innet | wil) see that the cost is very moder. | ‘ ate for these beautiful and excellent Lace Curtains and Drapery stuffs. Urapery Fabrics 756,00 . At Cost to Manufact ure $3| fln Carved Sideboard; stands Wil olnss 5 over 6 feet high and 4 feet i e wide and has a bevel French < surplus stock of French plate mirror and drawer plush lined for nd the surplus stock silverware—one of those exclusive bar- f two nwnw‘x acturers of - gains to be had only at Pattosien's Fabric Drap, V- = S The Great Rebuilding Sale. i 5 prices are so low that the | est fabrics are placed within = the reach of all. These bar- A gains shown on second floor: 1’ . Fabrics, sold at $1.50 yara, C I F g : : : arpet pargains., 5 Fabrics, sold at vard, . sold at $3 vard, at BRUSSE MOQU $4 yard, at| ANMINST w VELV $5 yard a ¥ at $ yard, at oy BRUSSELS abrics, sold at $7.50 yard, ROXBURY CARP: 50 WOOL INGRAINS . ! ts, Curtain Nets, fizured and | LINOLEUM, PER YARD s0ld at 37, 4 ) and 65e t a vard; to be closed out at 25¢ 2 ard. Large Remnants, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 | vards each, for Draperies, Furni- | R B . re and Hangings, closed out re- | B | b Sangin ug Bargains, & made of G vers and Orfental Curtains, | ¥ “work sold at $5, $7.50, $10 and = E pair, to be closed out re- BROMI REVERSIBLE RUGS—9 B ¥ of the cost; your choice| feet | 6 feet wide..,. ] R1.50 and $2 10% feet long, 7% feet wic 4 ] . rich Oriental Portiere 12 feet long, 9 feet wide......814,25 B S brocaded and our | CARPET REMNANTS—235¢, 50¢, $1 , to be closed out regard- | and R1.75—vour cholce, x ! ; sold at $10, $12.50, = S = < . N f12.50. | JAPANESE RUGS—The genuine im. g | 53 E rted Dantsu—all sizes in stock— d $10 a pair s o B g orders for fine drapery work | Tle« UpD. ] : workmen. 220 rolls fine Japanese I\Imtllng at very = =a | S ® ow prices to cle ut—1Ze, 15¢, & 62.50 | See the Bargains in the Window. 25¢ ina 85e. > Zc, Abc i | ~ o ! ] 4 B = H ] | £ YOU SAVE 7 Mission & an - 2 H | £ MONEY A I6th Sts, ] ' B » M B & | COREEEESE NI NI RS EE NN I NANARE R Ll lbdel L Isb b T 1] Ei AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, - COLUMBIA THEATER. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. : R an SATURDAY: TELEPHONE MAIN 532 \T LAUGH PROVOKER! TOMORROT et 215 o'clock s Beautiful Comic Opera, ON.” ING X vent, Stage of an Original Stewart of this M. Greene, titled, “THE CONSPIRATORS.” CLOSES SATURDAY MIGHT DON'T MLLE. LOTTY “‘Her act is the kind | ES | MISS ttfest and dainti der Richa 2 ntriloquist k-faced Humorist. Howard's Mr. t of its | n. City and M BROWN, ORENZ TROUPE, T ning SUNDAY NIGHT, |sne Mrs Harold Haskine, La Page Sisters, adededrot | Theue L H n Que | R o et L ’ 2 EDE S | Reserved 10c; Opera Chalrs | O “A MILK WHITE FLAG.”| ats, | Ericen, @ cte. 55 e, e 3008 Reserved ; ; 1son prices e, 2%e. aturday and Sunday. | Branch Ticket Offl el x{;‘y:,l,"-e 25e. HOUSE. \TER. ALL o : et Eepula L MATI O-MOR- el onss, ‘ ROW JAY. NANCE "NEIL D Y TO-NIGHT (FRIDAY), “THE SCHOOL FOR SCA! AY MATIN AY NIGH “THE NASKED BA!J‘” NDAL.” te Cast! PERFORM- Commencing SUNDAY NIGHT, October 224, One Week, MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, | The Cleverest Mu‘fi‘il‘:?l‘""]:‘arcp-(?omvdy Ever NEXT— s P s 1 e 7 rrep—— “THE THREE /[ A BREACH OF PROMISE. |, dy. | Matinees .. 50c and 25c. Seate Now R |RACING! RACING! RACING! CONCERSS AND RESORTS. 189¢ - CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB—1800 | CH TE< AND | Winter Meeting, bezinning SATURDAY, Sep- | ] B | emiber B 154 Z00! 2 OAKLAND RACE TRACK. EVERY AFTERNOON TVENIN Y : T IVE: A NOON AND EVENING. tacirg Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday, Thurs- X 5 T g \inQr olacine Monday. Tueaday. Wednesday, Thurs- |y 0R MITE tor on Farth. | i 5‘) Five or more races each day ADC and E , High Divers. ] Races start at p. m. sharp. 5 A GREAT VAUDEVILL HOW. i oats I!\’l\'(- an Francisco at 12 m. and RDAY NIGHT! Reproduction of e CENTRAL PARK 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30 and 4 p. m.. connecting Round of the CORBET ¢ RITASIMAONS . with trains stopping at the entrance to the n conjunction with the JEFFRIES track. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound M O Coter 2 5- CESS OF THE 25 CONEY | All trains via Oakiand Mole connect with San | "Phone for Sei Park 2 Cars at Seventh and | Broadwa Aleo all tr ne via Ala- e — e a winner, | meda Mole connect with San Pablo a | Reglons, | cars at Fourteenth and Broadway, Oakland. | K Painless treatment. Per- I, and his | These electric cars go direct to the track in if- | fpanecicuves Bmtite time teen minutes, : voted _to rectal dis. S taire Skiiy tiirning—Trains jeave the track at 4:15 and | i References those e 3 p. nd tmmediately after the last race. No surgery. A. J. e o THOMAS H_ WILLIAMS JR., President. ATKINS, M, D., 935 Sut- i1y added. | R B MILROY. Secretary. i ter street, San Francisco! The Weekly Call, 16 Pages, One Dollar per Year | lished the siate, by the newspapers of the f)lnfiuences cases of those who will be cited to show | brought to hear on the officials by the gas | cause why their names. should not be | | companies and the water cornorations— | siricken 3rom the roll. Citations have in many cases with good foundation - | been issued to 500 Individuals, and the IN THE POLITICAL ARENA HORACE DAVIS | EXTRA SESSION ORGES AEAD | POSTPONED FOR IN THE FIGHT & SHORT TIME Desertions From the Gage, Herrin and Democratic Camp. Burns Confer. —_— Candidates on the McNab municipal ticket are keeping a sharp eye on Mayor Phelan's particular partisans in order to detect the first signs of knifing in favor ? % Advocates of an extra session of the Legislature maintain that the proclama- | tion calling the members together will ve | issued about the middle of next month. of the head of the ticket. The manipu- | TWo weeks ago Governor Gage, W. F latc of the McNab convention want the | Herrin and D. M. Burns held a confer- whole works, but in the event of extreme | ence in this city and discussed the extra | peril will sacrifice subordinate positions in | session subject. The Governor favored a | order to grasp the great power of patron- | postponement of the matter until No- | age which the new charter vests in the | vember §—the day of the municipal elec- | Mayor. | tion in San Francisco. 1e election of Phelan will entrench the | The point was raised that if the extra Committee of One Hundred and fasten | session proclamation should be issued be- on the city of San Francisco a predatory | fore the municipal election, and if I band of job chasers—the rawest lot of [any chance the local contest should re- greedy x-eaters that ever feasted at|sult in Democratic advantage, the Re- the public crib. As an illustration of the | publican Governor would be held ac- | raw work of the One Hundred, the fact | countable for that result. It is said that the proposition to postpone was not re-} sisted by Herrin and Bur { The Call therefore predicts again that | the Governor will call an extra session of the Legislature, although it is possiple | that another postponement of the sub- ject may be taken to ascertain the sen- | timent of the United States Senate re- arding the admission of Quay on cre- dentials of appointment by the Governor | may be cited that the ticket indorsed by | the Phelan-McNab convention was slated | as early as September lo—three weeks be- | fore the delegates to the convention in- | dorsed the siate. The leading patronage | positions on ihe ticket were given to the old followers of the Commiitee of One | Hundred. The Cail of September 15 pub- | | | s Democrats may ascer- tain by reference to the files of this|of Pennsylvania. i pape! * D. M. Burns has not abandoned all hope | 1t is needless to remind Democrats who | of election by the California Legislature admire party fealty that Phelan was | in extra session. The claim is made by suved last November at the sacrifice of | his followers that he can secure the sup-; Judge Maguire, the Democratic nominee | port of several members of the Legisla- | for Governor. The friends of Maguire in | ture who voted for Grant at the last | tils campaign may retaliate by lending |-session, but far as The Call is able | their support to Dr. Cleveland, the can-|to ascertain Assemblyman Huber the ate tor Mayor on the People's party |onl nt man that has manifested an ticket | inclination to support Burns. On the, Many Democrats entertain the belief | other hand. information comes _that | that the election of Horace Davis would | several members who voted for Burns | be better for the cause of true Democrucy | last winter have resolved to jump the | than the success of Phelan and the per-| corral because they were thrown down | petuation of the Committee of One Hun- | or “gold bricked” in the distribution of | dred. The Phelanits are shouting that | promised State patronage. Gage is said national issues should not be considered | o be a little lukewarm toward Burns. | in_this municipal )aign, but every in- | Major McLaughlin is not so enthusia: te nt Democrat knows ' that McNab | cally in favor of the Mexican as he last winter at Sacramento. Herrin is not | on will authorize the the corporation to en- and Pielan have grasped the reins of the | Democratic party in order to control the | party organization through the agency of sure that Huntin aw department of £t Committee of One Hundred in 1900. | gage in another Senatorial contest in . non-partisan note is uttered to de- | blundering opposition to the wishes of the = Republicans. | people. By reason of these distressing Y iay Information was received | complications the Mexican’s chances of | success have not improved. i There is gossip in Southern California | the Republican Campaign Committee that the Democratic Club at 98 Capp i Str Thirty-fifth A nbly District, | that Judge Fitzgerald of TLos Angeles, olved to support Horace Davis for | formerly Attorney General of California, | Mayor, The president of the club is may be brought forward as a candidate | Chiries Worden and the secretary Carl | at the extra session. Sietert | ———— In the Thirty-first Assembly District | pHE]LLAN AND DEMOCRACY | there is a movement among non-partis n} merchants to organize a Horace Davis | S Club. Mz the grocerymen purchas- | The Mayor Tells Republicans fhe "ard times ‘of " the' sandiot. "agr | That the Campaign Is Simply tation and subsequent period of de- 5 & le pressi His generous dealings are r a Non-Partisan Strugg d by the merchants who were | iz e to overcome the hard times, and de- | @ lefseniion e to testify thel mercantile lit There will be spreciation of his The Democrats of the Fortieth Assem- | bly District opened their ratification meeting last night to the ominous strains the Sun Went Down.” Syd- m, ting of the execu- tive and campaign committees of the Re- | publican County Committee at headqua. as } ers, Baldwin Annex, this evening. Am an Wyck was Introduced as the | the -meet- | chairman of the evening. He consider- A Saturday even- | ately declined to make a speech on the S : Ll et e hat he is a good Democrat. | Solomong Myron Wolf & prace | 8round that s t Davis: Csenator Basene B Bent o5 | With that consoling _assurance he pre preside. : | sented Mr. Osgood Puinam as the first | t headquar speaker of the evening. Mr. Putnam | Pl olbe ; | consumed considerable time in telling his Lagilpe eyl building, s what splendid men are associated campaign work is progres Encour., | hearers what sple; e d{ aging reports are rece with him on the Democratic Supervi ved {rom the vari- | ous distr There will be no district | 1l ticket. ~As an aid to his memory | meeting: turday, as many of the voters | the speaker frequently referred to &l | from, the M orth End and West- | printed list of the names of the nomi- | Thly Bt Moo e ipptiend the Big | nees. One would suspect that the orator | The outlook” for Haml lean success | WaS an auctioneer, so eloguently did he | grows brighte: tis pUbice CCeSS | recite the virtues of his fellow aspirants. | h ghter as the contest proceeds R. P. Doolan was the next speaker and | Hundreds of Republicans who gave their | support to Phelan at two elections op ly slgnify their purpose to work and v with a som He promises Tax Collector entertained the audience | what dreary -autobiography. that he will be the best for Hor Davis. They simply declare t N bt Dl ¢ ever elected. Lewis F. Byington follow- uh;‘tm\ill' “,h”\'{=Ch,‘am<“h_‘;lv mx»dulfi“lfi'ddr_-r. ed, and beyond tangling his feet in a | Feglodt miee e @ public man | Jogical absurdity said nothing of more | £n nothing canbe utter . Luotn ] » | than passing in He declared that s e fs a Republican, fs en” | this' i« @ campaign where men and mot | | iTha s Rabublicas publicans. principles are to be supported, and upon | St e mgr:‘?lmmlr.g on DUrity | the heels of that assertion he insisted elected the following offies \53*#;‘;]! fnd | that the charter and not men is the great | Taan: presia ang iensurercPn Hy- | issue of the fight. Alfred J. Fritz was | - | given an opportunity to say that three of | ec- | the nominees for Police Judge are abso- | lutely beyond reproach, and he will try | to be if given a chance. P. J. Curtis | succeeded him and confined himself to general praise of the ticket and a plea for succes: The oft-repeated cry of the charter was evidently beginning to pall At this point Mayor Phelan entered the Simmons, vice president; Gus Casner, s retary. 5 — - DODGE FELT BADLY. Assessor Told a Democratic Audience That He Has g hall and was presented, in the midst-of Been Abus-od. cheers, as the next speaker. As the | Mayor Phelan talked to his Demoeratic | Fortieth District is overwhelmingly Re. publican, the Mayor adapted his remarks to the circumstances. In the Twent eighth District he knew nothing but De- mocracy. Last night he knew no political issues in’ this campaign. He knew nefther Republicans nor ‘Democrdts—only good | seats that were ocoupled. The Mayer g | CiUZens nterested in municinal issues in- | not address his home constituents until | fob Faen o PoheC o ngions. He said after he had finished explaining matters | parties, that which is nelghbors out at the Mission last evening. He did not tdlk to all of them, for all :;f them did not turn out to listen—in fact, the number of vacant chairs in Mission Parlor Hall was almost as great as the ainst the policy | to the voters of the Fortief trict. | he represents and that whish Fuppmr‘()s his | In the meantime the audie held | principles. So he called upon all to vote | by some spell-binding effusions the Democratic ticket, whic! from the in this | other Democratic candidates, including | Struggle is in reality a non-partisan part Frankiin Lane and Washingion Dodge | whose nominees will know. no party but | All of them admitted that they were the | that of progress. Having made this plea, best men that the voters could select to | the or’ gave an exposition of the run the city’s affairs under the new | charter and its scheme of municipal gov- charter. Not one of them denied that he | ernment. Events of the past year in of was suffering to get into office. cial local circles were reviewed, monop- Dr. Dodge put a coating of frost on olies were denounced, municipal owner- whatever enthusiasm there was in the | ship of public utilities was advocated and the Republicans as usual were denounced James P. Booth followed the Mayor, and in a graceful address won the good will of his hearers. He introduced a refresh- audience previous to the arrival of the | Mayor. He brought his portable black- board ‘with him and explained what s perfect Assessor he had been and would | continue to be if re-clected, and the au- | ing noveliy and said nothing in praise of Qience slept. Nothing was just right but | himself. He spoke of the principles that fmself, according “to the 5 i he and his supervisorial 0C1ates repri statemen tem of ta arbitrary. He said that the ation was wrong, Personal property suff- ition sked the who endorsed the p for which he contends. Thomas F. Ryan the not least interesting feature to the entertainment by singing a sentimental song and following it with one | of the coon vz Major Gear: even more flerce last | night than u His military record h: involved a nerve-racking strain in a co stant martial demeanor, The major is still insisting upon a straight ticket. When | he spoke last night Assessor Dodge and sent in this campaign, and rages of thosc gave the nightmare, because he could not lo- cate more than 10 per cent of it when he | him | | contributed felt it his duty to locate at least 50 per | cent. “Why, the people of this city have | only two millions of ready cash, accord- | ing to their statements (o the Assessor. The banks have thirty-six millions to the credit of deposito; nd who that other thirty-four millions helong to some- thing that has been puzzling me. The Mayor appeared during this inter- | had not ived. Jeremiah | esting part of the Assessor's address and & De: Jllowed the major, but said noth- | the zudlence sought relief in applauding | ing of significance. Dr. R. Beverly Caie, their standard bearer. When Dr. Dodge | Patrick Boland, George H. Cabaniss and came up for the second inning he paid his compliments to The Call, saving that the ion, and Assessor Dodge paper had hit him below the Lelt when | charts closed the meeting. e felt that he deserved being patted on | = = WILL PURGE THE ROLL. the back. Mr. Phelan’s speech was not a long Election Commissioners Issue 8 Num- ber of Citations. one, but contained some startling an- nouncements. While claiming all the credit for the framing and adoption of | the new charter for the Democratic | : party he did not neglect to assert that he | The Board of Election Commissioners Yas the only one entitied to enforce it | met yesterday motning and _appointed at the start off. > 1 e 9 c e STt O iness and not a polfticar | the Slection officers to serve in the Forty- | campaign. he sald, “The adminiciratim | fourth and Forty-fifth Assembly districts. or the war in the Philippines has nothing | The Commercial Publishing Company was to do with it. Tt McKinley came out | awarded the contract for printing sup here and told you what you should pay | plemental registers at 10% cents a name. for your gas you would tell him to gbo | The Registrar was instructed to locate | some city property where the election | Dbooths, which are.now stored at Channel and Fourth streets, may be moved. J. F. | Kennedy sent a communication stating that he had been ordered to move the Franklin K. Lane followed in quick suc- | the | | and home and mind his own business. The Republicans are making a desperate ef- fort to force national politics into this campaign. They have mo local policy and dare not come into the arend with no confidence | us. The people have in | frame building on the lot, as the San them, for they are affillated with the | Francisco and San Joaquin Railroad | nding corporations. They are more | Company would take charge of it on De- | to thelr ffiends than they are to the | cember 1. A monthly rental of $50 was paid to Kennedy for the land. Next Tuesday morning the Election Commissioners will meet to consider the “Few of us can survive the atmosphere of the City Hall. The continual charges bring ahout a bad state of feeling | among the people and force them to occasionally purge the entire City Hall.' board will meet every day until its task is completed. ——————— In the Divorce Court. Bmily Matilda Danby has been granted a divorce from Solomon J. Danby on the ground of failure to provide. D. H. Glea- son has secured a divorce from Lizzie Gleason on the ground of cruelty. De- crees of divorce on the ground of neglect have been granted Anna Frances Ozias from Charles W. Ozias and Clara L. Ma- hon from Harry J. Mahon. il Suffered a Hemorrhage. Clarence Gray, a well known Police Court practitioner, suffered a severe hemorrhage of the lungs at his residence, 641 Eddy street, last evening and was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where he now lies in a precarious condition. Dr, McGettigan, the attending physician, has little hope for his recovery. | | oppos | days to political life. | gone | plied him GREAT AMERICAN STATESMEN. Copyright, 1899, Contributars to this course: Muster, Professor Charles H. Laughlin and others. 1. SAMUEL ADAMS. By BERNARD C. STEINER, PH. D. To no one does the cause of American independence owe more than to this man who with. invincible persistence and shrewd farsightedness so conducted the cause of those among the colonists who 2 the taxation of Americans by the British Parliament that a majority of all the British subjects in each colony were willing to unite in declaring their inde- pendence from all foreign rule. He was a typical puritan, upright, firm, determined, religious, devoted to his cause, somewhat narrow, but with the narrowness of the sharp-edged sword. He was above all else a politician—a professional 1 politician. His early business were unsuccessful house was soon cl ship left him involved in debt. and, liv- ing on the small remains of his father's estate, he devoted the remainder of his Adams was of un- malt His sed, his tax collector- blemished integrity. His means were so narrow that his fru- gal and devoted wife was at times called upon to aid in the support of the fam- ily, and he was in- debted to friends for the clothes he wore, yet no temptation to amass wealth ever touched him. He was above bribery or influence by money. Adams was a faith- ful son of Massa- chusetts and Boston. Until he went to the continental congress, in 1774, he seems never to have left his native State, nor indeed to have ever any distance from his residerce. Except for his jour- neys to attend the various congresses of which he was a member, he scems never to have gone from home. Others might hold fore‘gn embassies; for him Boston was all-suf- ficient. In Boston his influence was long supreme. The royalist Governor of M sachusetts colony rightly called him * grand incendiar; whole of Massachusetts was set on fire by the Boston town meeting, and the moderator and master of that meeting was Samuel Adams. He did not into public life early, but from 1765, wken he was first elected as a representative from Boston to the Great and General Court, to 1% when he resigned the he Governorship of the State, his whole time | was devoted to the service of the peonle. 1t was noted that he cared not to discuss social, scientific or religious matters with all his thoughts were on politics, and in old i rite theme was the struggle at had horne so great a part self, he Insisted on civie vi to draw promisng and able into public service. His kinsman, John Adams, and John Hancock, whose wealth and social position were of great va.ue to the colonists, were two of those he introduced into politics. Through a long career we find but littie to criticize in hig actions from a moral point of view. He was doubtless some- what disingenpous in his treatment of the letters of Governor Hutchinson and some of his arguments, but the wonder is Upright him- | rather that in the heat of controversy he was swayed so little from the path of ab- solute rectitude. He cared not for personal advancement and seemed to feel little bitterness when the people sethim aside for a time. Adams trusted the people and believed that their decisions as to men were right. To infiu- ence their decisions as to measures he ap- 1f with the utmost vigor. 722 and was educ ed at He was born in 1 | Harvara College, wilere he took his bach- elor's degree in 1740 and his master's de- gree in 1743, It was afterward remem- bered, as a presage of his future, that his master's thests was an affirmative an- swer to the question, “Whether it be law- ful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved.” When 2 yvears of age he began furnish- ing to the newspapers the first of that long series of articles on government which had so much effect. His style of writig was clear and incisive, his argu- ments were forcible and logical. Adams used few metaphors and quotations writings were not graceful. but they were never dull and they were always convinc- ing. Adams always took a deep interest in popular education, and his first public of. fice was that of school visitor, to which he was appointed in 1753. His whole course of effort against Great Britain was what we would call a “‘campaign of education.” He appealed chiefly to che intellects of his fellow-citizens, though he was too skillful to omit altogether the appeal to emotions. When the stamp act showed the policy of Great Britain to ward America he drafted his first public paper, a series of instructions to the peo- | ple's representatives, adopted by the Bos- ton town meeting May 24, 1764. He stood steadfastly for the principle of no taxa- | tion without representation, and, unlike Otis, discerned from the first that repre- sentation of any sort in the British Par- liament was impracticable. In these eaiiy resolutions he claims that the stamp t “annihilates our charter rights to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our Brit- ish privileges, which, as we have never forfeited them, we held in common with out fellow subjects who are natives cof Britain. If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal repre. sentation where they are lald we are re- duced from the character of subjec the miserable state of tributary slavs Adams advanced from this position so as to maintain, in 1773, that Parliament had no right to legislate for the coloniss in America. The attempt of.the British to seize him and Hancock just before the battie of Lexington was not a mistaken one. He had been the very forefront of opposition. Adams was prudent enough to see from the very first that Boston alone. or even the whole of Massachusetts, could not en- | dure successfully the burden of the strug- | gle with England. To secure even the hope of success the co-operation of all the other colonies was necessary. In the resolutions of 1764, to which we have re- ferred, the necessity of united effort is stated thus: “As his Majest other North American colonies are embarked with us in this most important hottom, we further desire you to use your en- deavors that their weight may be added | to that of this province that, united application of all who grieved, all may obtain redress.” This insistence on the importance of united action was never lost by Adams. He con- tinued to struggle for it. In 1765 he in- duced the Legislature to send a circular letter to the other colonies. Massachu- setts was the chief offender, but she struggled for a principle whose Impor- tance was equal to att~the colonies. We by the are ag- Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, Smith, Dr. Frederic of the province,” for the | enter | PBritain, in which he | tue and strove | voung men | in | by Seymour Eaton. Professor John Bach Me- Professor Andrew C. Me- ! W. Speirs, | must never think of the colonies as actu- | ally suffering from oppression, though the | strong language of their documents often state th a fact. What Adams strug- nst was the validity of a doc- e which would make oppression pos- sible. In that struggle he often thought that in this time®of common distress it would be the wisdom of the colonists more frequently to correspond with and to be more attentive to the particular cir- cumstances of each other. “It seems of late to have been the policy of the ene- mies of America to point their artillery | against one province only and artfully to | draw off the attention of the other colo- nies, and, if possible, to render. that single province odious to them, while it is suf- fering ministerial vengeance for the sake of the common cause. But it is to be hoped that the colonists will be aware of this artifice. At this juncture an at- tempt to subdue one province to despotic power s justly to be considered as an at- tempt to enslave the whole. The colo- SAMUEL ADAMS. | nies form one political hody, of which {each is a member. The liberties of the | whole are invali of the whole to su | with all their weight and influence.” | As the clouds thickened his | sistance to the ill-judged British policy | was continued and the skill with which | he managed the colonial cause, keeping | within constitutior was clear- { H articles, pub- s the cusiom of the day under | plume as *Candide,” he opposition. His nt and biographer, Wells, rightly calls Lim “the true father of democracy in America, whose ‘voice and pen were em- ved for the common people; and he labored to build up American liberty, not only by public measures, but by cultivat- ing an individual lence of thought among the working classes as the true | of national freedom.” So successful he in )l of the people and so well did he wield his power, that in 1770 | Hutchinson was obliged to withdraw from town to the fort in the harbor the two British regiments which had been en- gaged in that unfortunate affray known as the Boston massacre. In the same year, through his influence, the Assembly ap- pointed a committee of correspondence ‘‘to communicate such intelligence as may be necessary to the agent and others in Great Britain, and also to the Speakers of the several Assemblies through the continent, or to such committee of cor- respondence as they have or may ap- point.”” This idea was still further carried out by the more famous resolution of the town of Boston in November, 1772, ap- pointing a like committee to “state the rights of the colonists, and of this prov- ince in particular, as men and Christians | and subjects, and to communicate pub- licly the same to the several towns and | to the world, as the sense of this town, with the infringements and violations thereof that have been or from time to time may be made.” So strong was his | longing for confederation of all America that he always sought to include Canada in the continental combination. The destruction of the tea in Boston harbor was managed by Adams, and when the port bill closed tnat harbor Adams acted as the chairman of the committee | to distribute the donations which came so generously from the other States. He | was a chosen member of the first Con- tinental Congress, and served in that body for seven years, or nearly until the end of | the war. Earliest of all the colonists he | longed for independence, and at one time, | discouraged by the slow progress of the other colonies toward the acceptance of that idea. he thought of a separate inde- pendent confederation of the New Eng- land colonies. He won, however, and had the joy of seeing the adoption of the reso- lution for independence introduced by his friend, R. H. Lee. With the achievement of independence his chief work was done. There were still twenty years of useful service ahead of him, however. He was one of those who prepared the articles of confederation, and, in his service on the Marine Board, did much to build up the navy, for whose | needs, as well as for his State’s interests, he insisted on our preservation of our rights to the Newfoundland fisheries. He served at home, in his absence from Con- gresk, as Secretary of State, and when the State’s constitution was prepared he sat | as a useful member of the convention. After retiring from Congress we find him in the Massachusetts Senate as strong an opponent of Great Britain as ever and bitter agalnst allowing the Tories to re- turn. He was classed as an anti-Federal- ist, yet was convinced that the people desired the adoption of the Federal con- stitution, and voted therefor in the rati- fying convention, while proposing amend- ments in the form of a bill of rights. He | was a stanch supporter of law and order in the turbulent times of Shay’s rebellion. The people of Massachusetts honored him to the last. A long standing disagree- | ment between himself and Hancock was made up in 1788, and, after serving as Councilor and Lieutenant Governor, he succeeded to the Governorship in 1793, at Hancock’s death. By successive re-elec. tions he held the post until 1797, when he retired from public life. He died on Oc- tober 2, 1803, having “through a long life | exhibited,” as one of his friends said, | “on all occasions an example of patriot- ism, religion and virtue honorable to the human character.” | | | Note—A study of Patrick Henry by Dr. Speirs will be presented next week. St. John’s German Church Fair. The fair for the benefit of St. John's German Church, 1315 Mason street, will be held_at Washington Square Hall, corner of Stockton and Union streets,’on the evenings of October 26, 27 and 25. The mu- sical programme will be conducted by ihe Rev. J. 8. Mangold. The committee in charge will consist of Mrs. Oetzel, presi- dent of the Frauen Verein; Mrs. L. Buck, vice pregident; Mrs. Riemer, secretarv; Mrs, J. S, Mangold, treasurer; Mrs. Binz, Mrs. P. Johnson, Mrs. F. Klotz and Mrs. | Zaun, |