The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1899, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1599, THURSDAY JOHN SP RECKE‘_SJFopnetoz. nunications to W. §. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Telepho © Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS Tel ..217 to 221 on St. phone Main 1874, Stew Delivered by Carriers, 16 Cents Single Coples, 5 Cent Terms by Mail, Including Postage: Per Week. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year..86.00 DALY including Sunday), ¢ months.. 3.00 DAILY relnding Sunday months.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—Ry Single Month. .. 8¢ SUNDAY CALL WEEKLY 1.60 : 1.00 recelive One Year. subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE. . ++.008 Broadway C. GEORG KR ESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Build- ing, Chicago. W YORK CORRY ON.... ceee NEW YORK PERRY LUKENS JR.... .29 Tribune Bullding NEWS STANDS: . News Co.: Great North- Auditorium Hotel. AEW YORK YVEWS STANDS: Waldori-Astorin Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D J. L. C) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES r Clay »n nigomery street, cor- K 0 Haves G639 MeAllister k. 615 Larkin ock. 1941 Mission velock. @ 61 Market spen until 9 o'clock. open until 9 o'clock. open until 9 o'clock. ond and Kentucky ock. open ppen until anul 10 Sixteenth, n street, Elescuth street, rmer Twenty- . open until H o AMUSEMENTS. la every afterncon and treets—Spectalties. ances. Bay, Market street, Dear o Jewess." AUCTION SALES. THE MISFORTUNES OF HEROES. dits that go in a he suc- tion to add a ceased to ugh and velt has been e are advising rable ¢ mseli a wife a people had just conierred exhibited dience. instructive pe v his pi ssed by i is as en among a ed States a breath f Hobso: elt and a ho speech too eymoon too there is the end of st cause to condemn I ar favorite is not a pleasant pat vor is like walking a slack r vith high winds blowing If a hero be the favorite and e can make h party will bac 1 non-partisan fa- Sorite " esses no political . . rious popularity ho became two have rans Lee The Natic does not be- Yieve in a hox e commit- tee has decid paign of 9o, like that of 18g6, shall be directed paigners follow the from Chir2zgo. Ii the cam- of least resistance they are likely to find themselves sliding off the continent. ct who has just been re- g twenty-eight years for stealing a xe a good advance agent for the introduction of automobiles It is predicted that the combination of broom- corn dealers and broom manufacturers will sweep everything before it The ..NOVEMBER 23, 189 .Market and Third, S. F. THE FATE OF THE EOERS. T has been no secret that England’s pretext for de- stroying the two South African republics is a pre- text only. The mining laws of the Transvaal, the Government monopoly of dynamite and the fran- | chise, are given as reasons why the republics should be wiped off the face of the earth. The material for a contrast, which exposes the weakness of this case rinst the Boers, is present in South Africa. In Rhodesia, in the territory of Bechuanaland, there are gold mines entirely under British jurisdiction. In- deed their administration is devised directly by Cecil Rhodes himseli. The public tax on the product of these Rhodesian mines is manyfold higher than the Transvaal tax, and dynamite is much more costly. In the Transvaal foreigners have a right to vote for the second chamber of the Volksraad after two years' nce, and become citizens after twelve years' resi- In many of the British crown colonies the nber of the Legislature is appointed directly or indirectly by the crown. Turning to impost taxes, compared with Cape Colony the Transvaal tariff is the lower on sugar, rice, flour, lard and corn, cover- ing the principal necessaries of life that have to be ed into the two colonies. ed of all pretense the British purpose is the i e of South Africa. The Boers trekked ag de first chan etrated, and by all law, by all international and bl ic regulation, precedent and right, are the owners v of the land they have occupied. Eng- w throwing out feelers to test the public of other nations as to her designs after the lics are destroyed. One of these comes “Old Indian Administrator,” in the Hert- hire Mercury. It proposes that after the war 1 of Great Britain shall be the paramount 1 power in every portion of Africa south of River Zambesi, except the recognized colonies of on the west and Portugal on the East region there shall be no communication sovereign power whatever except High Con The two ve desigr al states. The reign the Bri ces sha issioner. d fede: ate i Pretoria be abandoned and the capital er of that province. be cated elsewhere toward the cen state of Joh: between the Transv and extend from Mafeking to th ral mnesburg shall ier connection with the gold mines shall property way from the Transvaal and transferred to of Johannesburg under fixed conditions of “uropeans or natives to work them 1S No one ssess arms except by permission of the High The High Commissioner, who is in t a Viceroy, is to be the supreme and final author- the autocrat of the Government. This plan pro- all be destroyed missioner. her, that the leaders of “the insurrection,” ien Hollanders, shall be banished a and not permitted to return for the term n years, and then under conditions of good con- r Boers or a It will be seen that t borrowed from measures Khan the action of aged in the vivisection of v The natural boundaries of are to be disregarded. Their capitals Their mines are to be taken nd elsewhere bestowed of the and closely Bonaparte wi Europe with t the Boer s e to be abandc away h ord. As these mines are uth African Mining property Company the pretense of opening them to freedom of working by Europeans and natives is a delicious bit ft It will be observed that nothing is anging the conditions of the gold mines ia nor of the diamond mines of K nes the rpOC out ¥ berley. ive blacks are compelled to system that is but little better than h African Company desired to in- o the mines of the Transvaa troduce this 1 whi prevented by the laws of that republic 1 are con* ceived in a { justice to the Ka Under all the circumstances it is to be regretted that this time is selected for sending an American fleet to Table Bay. We have no interests there that can be served by the presence of a squadron nor that justify the large expense of sending it. In England and in Cape Colony this of our Government is at once construed as a demonstration of approval of Eng- land's war to destroy two republics, and while it is S§ irs. reported to have caused great enthusiasm and encour- ondon and at the Cape, it correspond- agement in L ingly depresses ar the two republ d discourages the gallant freemen , who, without a friend among the nations, are fighting for their birthright with the courage of despair. THE HORSE-STE@ GENERAL taste for good horses, unaccom- panied by the requisites of ownership, has LING HABIT. 4 brought trouble to many a man and been the means of increasing the prison population of the country. One of these horse fanciers had served three terms for horse-stealing, and declared on his last re- lease that he would curb his desire in that direction. Going away from the prison gate his eye fell on a horse grazing in a meadow. Leaning over the fence he admired the fine animal for a long time, and turn- y said, “Well, after all, I do like a good ing horse With such men the taste is what may be called exoteric, for want of a better term. That is to say, it is manifested toward all fine horse flesh and is not a secret attachment to one equine individual. All horses—brindle, bay or sorrel, flea-bitten gray or white or iron gray or even the wide-footed Percherons—are equally at- tractive, and the midnight fancier who -acquires title by getting hold of a halter with a horse at the other | end is made happy by the acquisition of either. supposed that this confusic It is of mind as to ownership of horses is a species of atavism, a recurrence to a former horseback type in the remote ancestry of the race, when nomadic conditions scorned a bill of sale and the wild freedom felt in straddling a bareback horse and galloping to the next oasis was abdve all sordid sentiment. | It has remained for California to develop a new type of horse thief. We feel that that term is harsh, but let { us consider it as merely descriptive and conventional. The doors of San Quentin prison have just swung outward to permit the exit of a man who has reached the mature age of 67, and who has been eight times convicted and sentenced for stealing the same mare! His sentences aggregate forty-one years, and he has actually served twenty-eight years behind the bars for stealing that same animal. His taste was esoteric, confined by some subtle and secret reason to one horse. The finest equine charms shown off by others had no attraction for him. He could have been trusted alone with Flora Temple, Electioneer, Sal- vator or all of the gyeat dams and sires whose pedi- grees illuminate the records of horse aristocracy. They would have been as safe against theit as a hot stove. But that mare up in Calaveras County was iin'esistible. As soon as he had served a term for but were | trotters, thoroughbreds, roadsters | stealing her he went up and stole her again. The eighth time he took her he was caught of course. Whenever that mare was missed and he was known to be at large no time was spent in guessing who had her. | So when she disappeared he was pursued and caught | and sentenced to fiiteen years. His time with credits is | out, and before he was released the mare’s owner in Calaveras was warned to take her in nights. To this he answered that the mare died of old age ten years ago. Her aged admirer said that he was not without | hope, for she may have leit a colt! So he is out in the wide world again, making a bee line for Calaveras to | ‘mquire into the family affairs of that oit-stolen mare, | | and if she left descendants it is highly probable they have inherited the tendency to be stolen by this most I remarkable and persistent and peculiar horse thief that ever adorned the ranks of that risky vocation. e — e . THE RED FLAG IN PARIS. RANCE'S Parliament gave promise of a sen- r:saxion on Tuesday. Scarcely had the Chamber of Deputies got ready for business than a Re- publican member arose and asked who had authorized the display of red flags at the ceremonies in connec- tion with the unveiling of the statue of the republic on the previous day. He is reported to have added to his question a little sarcasm in the form of a com- | pliment to President Loubet for his tact in turning | his head and looking in another direction when the red flags appeared. In reply to the question M. Waldeck-Rousseau spoke like a statesman who is sure of his ground. | | What he said virtually amounted to a declaration that | | while the Government had not authorized the dis- play of red flags, neither had it forbidden such dis- play. In fact, the Government is not afraid of the red flag nor of those who carry it. The demonstra- tion of popular esteem for President Loubet was a proof the people are not inclined to revolution, and therefore there is no need of repressive measures against persons who like to make a show of revolu- tionary desires. Moreover, he declared, “it is use- less to endeavor to excite public opinion by raising the red flag bogey as was done fifty years ago.” The question and the reply show the temper of France. There are still a few persons who delight to wave the red flag in the eyes of conservatism, and there are still some conservatives who are alarmed by the waving. The time, however, when the Govern- ment could be frightened has gone by. The present Ministry neither cares to suppress the revolutionists nor does it care to use them as a means of frighten- ing the people into consenting to the establishment of a military tyranny as was done by Louis Napoleon fifty years ago. On the showing made the outlook for France, for resident Loubet and for the Waldeck-Rousseau | stry is bright. The Government has confidence in itself, and that in turn will obtain for it the confi- | dence of the publ When Paris is so well ordered that Ministers do not become excited over the appear- | ance of red flags in great public demonstrations it is | evident things are going well and there is no danger of disturbance. It will be remembered that when the new Cab | took | long. | reser | | t office there were predictions it would not last It was said to be a compromise Ministry, rep- g no particular party, and called to office only to carry the country over the crisis in the retrial of | | Dreyfus. The Ministry, however, has had the good | fortune to include among its members one of those | rare men who seem ordained by fate to come forth ; at critical emergencies and prove themselves to be | the right men in the right place at the right time. Premier Waldeck-Rousseau may not be strong ~ or | wise, but in the War Department there is a statesman the first order. General Gallifet has been do- ing a remarkable work in clearing the general | staff and incidentally the army of the gang who made | | such a scandal as that of Dreyius possible. He has | won golden opinions from all sorts of people, and he is known to be resolute and courageous. With such a man in command of the army there need be no fear of red flags nor of military conspiracies. His | influence has been felt throughout the country, and, | thanks to it, it quite probable the Waldeck- Rousseau Ministry will hold office long enough to | see the exposition of next year brought to a close | and the republic entering safely upon new fields of endeavor. | | o | is | | t EMBALMED BEEF AGAIN. 1 UT of the loss of trade resulting from the ex- | ?O posure of the so-called “embalmed beef” fur- | nished to the American army during the Cuban | campaign it was believed the beef trust would learn | a lesson profitable to itseli and would never fill 2 Government contract with such stuff again. It ap- | pears, however, the lesson was given in vain, for by | { reports from South Africa it is learned that some of | | the beef supplied to the British troops on the trans- | | ports was of the same kind as that which caused the | scandal here. In fact, the London Chronicle asserts some authorities in that city have “a suspicion that some of the meat supplied to the Government for use on British transports was meat which had been re- jected by the United States during hostilities in Cuba, where it was picturesquely known as embalmed | beef, and relabeled with the mark of the current | year.” | It would be a curious commentary on trust methods | of doing business should these suspicions prove to be well founded. We should then have an illustration of | what can be accomplished in the way of selling goods to advantage under the most adverse circumstances. The rotten beef supplied to our army was subjected to a prolonged investigation. A large body of testi- | mony was taken and every salient feature of it | elaborated by discussion in Congress, by officials of | the War Department and by the press. If aiter all that the astute salesmen of the bevf packers’ combine | could take that same old rotten truck, relabel it and sell it to the British Admiralty Office they deserve | credit for their persistency as well as punishment for | the iniquity to which it was devoted. There is one feature of the case which should not | be overlooked. It has been repeatedly said by the | supporters of the trust system of doing business that | | by eliminating competition it would eliminate the | | temptation to dishonesty. The trust, having a vir- | | tual monopoly of some great staple article, could | | afford to keep it up to a high standard of purity and | | excellence. The managers of the trust wonld be un- | der no necessity to resort to adulterations or other | tricks in order to compete with unscrupulous rivals. | | All such arguments vanish into nothingness before | | the light which has been thrown upon the methods ! of the beef trust. Caught in the act of supplying the | | American army with vile beef and now suspected of | | selling to the British Admiralty the very stuff that | was rejected here, it is evident a trust can be as tricky as any rascal on record, and that the frauds | perpetrated in the way of impure foods are not due i altogether to the competitive system- of doing busi- ness. 4 — From the admissions of Editor Henry Watterson the star-eyed goddess of Democracy in old Ken- tucky seems to be wearing crepe on her lone optic. Q6 +P e eD P IT e P IIePITIIIIIIITIIITIDIIetPIIIIEIOIIIeiIePeiedtiedorededsieieded ¢ieiedede | papers as “the push” have cons | encouraged to address myself to you in | place except in accordance with oo daiasa [ R - s -4 B S S B e s Y AMERICAN ' LAND THATS NEFD ONLY WATER RESERVOIE&- . R > sreveoe PEPOP O I eI eeieiedeTeieD e ied 0-1oéoi00090000060004'0»‘o;o«oOOOOQOOO-Ofl*H#'v"'OO*& L d -9 L EENIGTEE NS AN -—ANE T A POOLTY The whole area of the Philippines is a little over 70,000,000 acres. There are 100,000,000 acres of the best land on earth in the Western States need- ing only water.—Denver News. EXPANSION Joha D. Spreckels of San Francisco, a | RSU: member of the Republican National | v 8 Committee, passed through Chicago on | IRRIGATION, Friday en route to Washington to attend a meeting of the committee. He was in- terviewed in the Windy City and announced himself very em- phatically as an anti-expansionist. “As I came through the great prairies of the West,” he said, “on this trip I could not help but think of the great good that might have been done inourown country with the money which we are now spending to maintain the army in the Philippines. If that money had been put in irrigation in the Western countries I believe the United States would have reaped greater benefits from it than it ever will by the retention of the Philippines.” This is a practical suggestion that will strike the average reader as possessed of good, hard sense. The money that has been expended in the Philippines would have constructed reservoirs ample for the needs of the arid region for a gen- eration, perhaps two generations to come. These reservoirs would have brought millions of acres under cultivation, and made homes for more people than there are in the whole Philippine archipelago. Their productive energies would have added billions of dollars to the nation’s industries and increased its domestic trade in like proportion. Compare the purchasing power of an average American family with that | of a people whose clothing consists of a single abbreviated cotton gown, and whose food staples are rice and tobacco, and you have the exact difference in its influence on trade between developing the Philippines and rendering arable and productive the lands of the trans-Missouri West. As a Republican who is stanch enough to be a member of the National Committee, Mr. Spreckels by this “single practical suggestion has struck a body blow at the imperial- istic policy of the party. Even better than this, his remar indicates that practical and enterprising business men, such as he is, are thinking upon this irrigation problem, and be- ginning to realize what irrigation improvement will do for the arid lands of the West, and the trade results that will flow from the expenditure of a few millions of Government money in the construction of storage reservoirs. When this class, or enough of them, comprehend the proposition, the era of irrigation development will not be long delayed. THERE ARE IN THE PLAINS REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES ABOUT 100,000,000 ACRES OF LAND WHICH GOV- ERNMENT SURVEYS SHOW MAY BE BROUGHT [ WATER BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE SYSTEMS OF WATER RESERVOIRS. WITH WAT THE LAND WILL GROW PRODIGIOUS CROPS. THE ENTIRE AREA OF THE PHILIPPINE GROUP. INCLUDING MOUNTAINS, SWAMPS AND WASTE LANDS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, IS PLACED AT 73,165,140 AC DENVER NEWS. |CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS | UNDER THE NEW CHARTER To the Editor of The Call: past ten days several persons who belong to what is familiarly referred to in the ceeding three, stan class or grade to w longs, and the official with reference to the civil ser ons of the new charter. What they want to know Is whether or not, after making a successful “fight” for a position | under the new government on a spoils basis, they will be compelled to take up the study of asithmetic, geography, spell- | ing and reading in order to qualify them- selves to hold on. I am a strict civil ser- vice reformer myself, entertaining no “All officers, . i ‘, the power to appoint deputies, clerks, h 3 sympathy - whatever for the spollsmen, | ctenographers or employes = : , end T have uniformly Answered these in: | SecE ol gim,rpemploves 1 any of the | & Call will publish that quiries ex parte, in each case advising the | county ment| oned in this section shall 1 Eaber of 1he Phen e T the | ooake sk e in this section shwil | & suctryment IN FULL as that the better and safer way was to observe the law and buckle down to study. But an examination of the civil service e e t of vl o] ospective. None provisions of the new charter has con- | Prospec e : vinced me that, whatever may become of | SRfiINt, thelr subordinates the question of permanent tenure here- after, one thing is quite certain, namely, the classified service examination estab- lished by the instrument will not apply to any person appointed under the govern- ment which assumes office on January 8§ next. I am so well convineed of this that T am ple reason that untfl filled as designated. Commission cannot for some time plicants until notice by publication. ernment will of ne stitute no the hope that you will publish what I say and set at rest the apprehensions of the large number of worthy citizens who are anxious to take charge of our public business at the beginning of the year. The charter provides (article XIII) for Nor does the ch in terms that any January § shall ta is only by the prn\'lsin 5 to apply to th a Civil Service Commission, which shall | DY Becessity on that be appointed between December 1, 1599, | his domimion dul¥ and January 1, 199, and which, on the first Monday after the first day of Jan- uary, 190, shall take office along with the other officials elected and appointed (sec- tion 36, amticle XVI). This commission must then classify the civil service in ac. cordance with the plan outlined in sec- tion 11 of the article, and no appointment shall (thereafter?) be made to any such rule. must be mad, be no vacan resigns, w that all persons who under_the municipal uary 8 will continue rules adopted by the commission, Provision is then made for examinations for promo- tions, for a prohibitive period, for the se- lection of laborers, for returns of the exe aminers, for reports, etc., ete. When “the head of the department or office in which a position classified under this article is to be fllled shall notify the Com- missal in a proper for go‘r\h four years. San Fray Within the | missioners of that fact,” the Commission- | ers shall certify to hi dress of one or more candidates, not ex- of the three and appoint him. Then follows the only provision which | seems to Indicate that It was the inten- tion of the Freeholders to apply the clas- sified service to the government as it will be constituted on January §: courts, boards and heads of d;pnrlmem:‘ vested in this charter with with the rules and p by this articie, and any a 80 made shall be void." 11 this. however, can only be ever make requisitio resigns there will be classify after it and it cannot commence it has given cessity have to be con- d anew on Janua: rovision by whie; holders shall hold ov arter anywhere provide person holding office on ke the examinations. 2 .strained construction that f article XIII can be made | em. Eve) signed by the head of how any of them ca compelled to appear before the Ci Service Commission 1 do not see. tainly the charter confers no auth upon the commission to enforce any suc When a vacancy occurs a requisition | e and filled; but there will cles until somebody dies or hich I believe Therefore the conclusion is irres. f amination until death, for cause after trial. say, this will be the case if the Court shall decide at some future time. action, that it Is of Freeholders longer terms for ung\l n Francisco, Nov. 22, 0000000000000 000 WILL PUBLISH THE CHARTER TO-MORROW m the name and ad- 200000000 20000 0000000000000 0 000000 To maet the increasing demands of our subscrib- ers and of those cily offi- ctals pariicularly infer- ested in the provisions of the New Charter, The ing highest in the ich the position be- shall then select one ons prescribed a supplement of to-mor- row’s issue of the paper. In addilion there will be a synopsis containing the number of office- holders, lerms, salaries, ele. 6000002000000 0 0 —_———— Cal. glace fruit Sc per Ib at Townsend's.* e ity fon 11.) the officlals w on January ., for the sim- an employe dies or no vacancy to be The Tlvil Service the servic goes Into off to examine ap- two wee. Therefore the g S, since there is h the present office- er. IR R AR R R R R A A A A R R R R R A R R N It officlal chosen | date will hold under | Special information supplied datly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 51 Mont- Cer- | E0mery street. Telephone Maln 142 ¢ urllfi{ . —————— y Failed to Appear in Court. E. C. Hansen, the soldier accused of in- sulting the daughter of J. F. Perry in front of the California Theater, failed to answer to his name when called in Judge Mogan's court yesterday and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. He was | iven over Tuesddy afternoon to the cus- 4 tody of Captain Dubois, Company Suprema | FOFty-second Infantry, on the under- standing that he would have him in court, rarely hlp[:l‘l‘i‘ffl | e obtain appointments overnment on Jan- office without ex- resignation or dis- That is t constitutional offclal thua | The als than most efficacious stimulan: to sharpen the D. SQUIRES. | appetite s Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, See that you get the gesulne