The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 189 FRIDAY... Call MBER 29, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. &. LEAKE, Manager run CATION OFFICE. . . Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Main 1568, EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Teiephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers. 16 Cents Per Week. Single Coplex, § Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: (neclading day), o (Inclnding Sunday), ¢ (necluding Sanday), —Ry Single Month. .00 1.50 . 65c . 1.50 . 1.00 recelve scriptions. e forwarded when requested Sample coples wil OAKLAND OFFICE .D0S Broadway Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. ve+..Herald Sq CSENTATIVEL 29 Tribune Ballding NEW YORK RE PERRY LUKENS JR O NEWS STANDS: i P. 0. News Co.: Great North- crn Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union re; Murray Hill Hotel S ngton Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, cor- er Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open until 9 39 MeAllister street, open un G135 L street, open unt 1041 Mis reet. open un 2261 Market et, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valemcla street, open until 9 o'clock. atreet, open until 9 o'clock. corner Twenty- ntil ® Vaudeville every afternoon and is streets—Specialties. AUCTION SALES. BANKS AS VAMPIRES. finance 1 matters of n to prove s. In answer the President leveland is bears T, WAS a transac ess which the Chronicle n to enrich themselves by nity. The rapid drain of gold brought the reserve to t danger line. Unless it were replenished it was a m and th tre to go broke credit get a Congress cue of the Govern nd frankly laid t is in the t measures of financial reiorm. active spirit th appeal to the country, of bidders. te prospect of an insol- competiti other ignorant and hostile emergency the contract w at which the large 1 in the short time N credit o ey to depress the pre- nment was a desperate ue for the purpose of replen- was made by that administza- t wait until emergency Knowing that ive no relief a general advertise- e and the banks of hole country competed to such an extent that ount of gold offered was immensely in excess ed by the Government, and the actory that the loan was all to the tantly met r competitive bids was m ere S ) sa terms exceedingly satisfactory to lock up money, lower prices h out of the Government was not im- according to the Chronicle’s idea it sation as tempts banks to play her evidence of such sordid policy ks is offered, and this eviden consider the charge withdraw na- back upon a plan by whicl n contract the -currency, and dec that it can be done by refusing to pay out their own bills on checks, or by destroying t! ! If they er currency to pay on checks it makes no difference which they pay out or which they retain. The currency is not being contracted as long as they meet the demand for it. But if a national bank having its own bills on hand and having paid out all other forms of currency its possession should refuse to honor a depositor’s check in its own bills, or should destroy its bills to prevent their cir- culation, we 2 nion that some one responsible for s 1d get into the penitentiary. The ¢'s suggestion of a method for doing something that there is no selfish regson for any bank to do passes out of the limits of financial discussion and invades those of humor. against banks are true, instead of being a needed in- strument of business and filling a want in modern civilization they are criminal enterprises, a menace to the community, and should be suppressed The fact is, however, that banks of issue have no have « in ~ | dent. If the charges brought | SCHURMAN'S VIEWS. RESIDENT SCHURMAN is again before the public with views upon the Philippines, in an Published by the New York Indepen- P artic He affirms the honesty of Aguinaldo and his sincere devotion to seli-government and indepen- dence. Of the masses of the people he declares them avid of knowledge, teachable, tractable, honest and sober. The common exhibition of drunkenness among Americans makes a bad impression, for he says no Filipino is seen in a similar condition. He regrets that the American saloon has been founded there and has secured such a firm hold. Reading his article one is impressed by regret that we have been | compelled to go shooting a people of such qualities, | and that our advent among them is remembered for | the widespread sorrow, suffering, slaughter and de- ! struction that have followed our progress. A recent writer has expressed regret that wherever Russia appears government is planted. The people brought under Muscovite do- minion find that they have only exchanged Oriental for Occidental despotism, and that the exotic article is worse than the indigenous. Americans may find themselves regretting that our advent into Asia is in the aspect of a conqueror, denying to a people the ful- fillment of their dream of republican self-government. This country would have enriched its place in history if it had respected Aguinaldo’s honest devotion to the principles of our government and, acting as a in Asia autocratic friend instead of a conqueror, it had been the means | of setting up an Asiatic republic, independent and a new light of Asia to spread re- As Mr. Schurman seli-governing, publican principles by example describes the people they have the qua which would have made such a government possible. When he turns to the religious aspect of the problem his solution of it indicates difficulties of the gravest es ve natu The millions of Christians in the islands are the people in whose breasts we have apparently pianted the memory of harshness and injustice. To on-Christian Mahometans only have we gone as .. We have recognized and affirmed among d slavery, and instead of killing them a ng their property we are paying their rulers salaries and agree to protect their reli- gion and their institutions. ! The Catholics. After all it speaks well for Spanish policy that, with all em polyga tians are universally its errors, the people who were brought under it em- braced with fervor and devotion the religion of Spain. Mr. Schurman is very anxious to introduce Protest- nto the islands as the religion of the new proposition that only one Protestant sect shall enter that field, because in each of our sectarian divisions ly a different and antagonist the people will see o Ii power shall n relig our « into whose keeping shall be put the salvation and Only the exercise e rival sects from that ach insists upon organizing itual interests of the natives eep t sionary work which can power oi such d projecting among distant peoples Great Brit a thing, and when the power exists in the Governm the conqueror it is undoubtedly a wise pol When Kitchener de- stroyed the Dervish power in the Soudan he was can do suc ic able to st be excluded from the country, and, recognizing Ma- hometanism as the best spiritual thaught for the peo- ple, he immediately secured an endowment for a great Mahometan university at Khartoum or Om- durman, in which Islam is to be taught to the people s power and purity. st we go to find authority for our ge between the sects and, selecting others? It is easy to see that if such power be asserted, if authority to exclude all but one Protestant sect be found, it necessarily ut where m vernment to one, to repudiate al plies the right to exclude all, and the Catholic hier- arch ill c! should be ment shall rbidden to enter, and that our Govern- troduce there an American priesthood and still further intrench the church in a field that it has occupied for three centuries. It will be seen that wherever we touch the issue of our conquest the most afflicting problems arise. Their | nature is such that their effects cannot be confined apd limited to the islands themselves, but they are ly reflected back upon our domestic polity and divide our own people upon lines that will se- riously concern the social welfare at home. If we had chosen another course in the Philippines and had led them in the path of independence and self-government which they longed to follow, all these grave issues, spiritual and civil, would have been left to them to solve. The struggle for their solution would have been in the nature of discipline in gov- ernment. How idle it is to talk of devoting ourselves to the spiritual and civil welfare of ten millions of aliens, so far away, when in the midst of us are thirteen millions of negroes, of an alien race, whose civil rights, guar- anteed by our constitution, are universally disrespected and whose efforts at spiritual advancement are more commonly the subject of jest and sneer than of help- | ful effort and sympathy It is safe to say that what a people will not do at their own doors they will not do far away. This is not a harsh judgment of the American It is simply rewriting the truth of our his- We have never anywhere shown the capacity he disposition to deal fairly with any race but our own, character. has made it the lordly race of the temperate zone, are elements in the physical nature of things. They carry with them impatience and contempt for the racial | qualities of people alien to us in blood, who can never assimilate our ways. These facts may as well be rec- |oxnin:l now as later on. e Assistant Postmaster General Heath having made trouble for himself by an order forbidding the em- ployment of the wives of clerks in the department has made the matter worse by issuing an explanation, in which he says: “The impossibility of retaining two clerks who marry each other is due to the peculiar unreasonableness of brides and grooms. Perhaps there is no reason why two good clerks should not remain good clerks aiter they are married, but the un- aiterable fact is that they don’t. * * * Two mar- ried clerks are a source of discord to any office’” American neutrality with reference to the belliger- ents in the Transvaal seems to be susceptible of two interpretations. At present the State Department can | see no harm in allowing shipments of Chicago beef 1o | the British army, although it is lying awake nights ters of the people, but he makes the impossible | nade a working policy this means that | ate the Protestant sect | late that all Christian missionaries should | im- 2im, with a strong color of right, that all | The mighty energies which have upraised it, | the virility which has perpetuated it, the genius which | more power over the volume of currency when it is | trying to head off similar consignments to the Boers. once emitted and is the property of the people than | Queer;thing, this neutrality. any other banks of deposit which loan money and | sell exchange Hope springs anew in the North End breast. The R e — { Rabbits are so scarce that the usual Wednesday coursing had to be suspended this week. Here is an opportunity for some of these patent hair storers, Brothers to get a move on pretty pronto or some- thing will drop. The century mark dispute will never be ended un- re- | l!i] old Time calls it off and decides it a draw ’Super\-isors have notified the bondsmen of Bateman | THE ELECTION TO-DAY. FTER the splendid vote cast for park extension fl on Wednesday it hardly seems neediul to urge | upon the attention of voters the importance of | the issues at stake in the elections to-day. Still there | is always danger that the feeling produced by a | sweeping victory may incline many of the victors to | become over-sanguine and neglectful of the strength }of the opposition. The men who carried the day for } progress on Wednesday should be sure, therefore, to | 20 to the polls to-day and make another victory cer- | tain. As there has been little or no open opposition to the proposal for issuing bonds for the purpose oi providing for the completion of a good sewer system, the construction of a city and county hospital and the erection of seventeen new schoolhouses, . many of the advocates of progress may regard the result as already assured and deem it a matter of no moment whether they go to the polls or not.” All such feeld ings should be set aside. Even if there were'no an- tagonist at all in sight it would still be worth while for every public-spirited citizen to vote in order that the vote cast for progress may be sufficiently large to attest the widespread popular demand for it. i It is not to be doubted that the various improve- ments contemplated in the issues of the election are of the highest importance to the community. The health of the city has been due in the past mainly to the natural advantages of the locality. “As the city increases in size, however, and the density of the population becomes greater, the need of an adequate sewer system becomes more urgent. As for the schoolhouses it is well known that they are veritable necessities. We have so far outgrown our school edifices that at present the deficiency in that provision | for public education has become something of a mu- % nicipal disgrace. Much the same can be said of the | | | proposed city and county hospital. It is a necessity | of the community and should be provided promptly in the interests of charity and humanity. Once more, therefore, the progressive citizens should go to the polls to cast their votes for a greater | and better San Francisco. They should be resolved to repeat to-day the triumph of Wednesday. We have begun the forward movement and it should be kept moving. There should be no slackening of popular energy so long as anything remains to be done. MANKIND GROWING BETTER. | i | AA AX NORDAU and his followers have set | / ‘\iunl\ many reasons for their creed that civil- ized man is degenerating mentally, morally and physically. They have pointed to the grind of factory labor, to the strain of life in crowded cities | and to the use of impure foods as conditions which tend to sap the vitality of the race and render it un- duly nervous, excitable and irritable. As evidences of this alleged degeneration they assert | have been compelled to resort to tea, coffee, liquo: tobacco and all sorts of stimulants to fit them for the | intense struggle of life, and that these stimulants in turn have tended to weaken their nerves and their mental and moral fiber. That is the view of the philosopher reasoning upon data collected from divorce courts, police courts, and insane asylums. Scientists collecting their evidence from the records of the past as well as | of the present, and from the health instead of the dis- ‘eaxes of life, have a very different conclusion. From | | | | | | prisons their studies they draw the verified convictiog that civilized man is improving in every respect and is better in this age than ever before. Professor W. J. McGee of the Bureau of Eth- | nology, in a recent interview with the Boston Globe, stated that the teachings of those who believe in the degeneration of civilized man are without scientific Even Paris, he is quoted as saying, the alleged seat of sensuality | foundation. !uo worse as the tide of time sweeps on. And the re- mainder of the world is growing better. The human race is progressing. Men are growing healthier, stronger, brainier; they are larger, more fleet of foot and strong of limb, more quick to think and to do: | they know more, work more, accomplish more and are better for the life that they lead to-day. Con- trary to a widespread and general impression, they | are less given to the excessive use of liquors and of tobacco than they once were; they are more moral | and more religious. 1 In stating the evidence upon which these conclu- | | | | | sions are based, the professor said: “One of the best indications of the strength of a race, all things considered, is the longevity of its people. Recently there have been exhumed from the ruins of Pompeii a number of actuaries’ tables. In these the ancient Italian insurance agents had people with whom they did business. When the Italian actvaries’ tables were compared with the ‘acmaric’»' tables of the insurance companies now | doing business in the United States it was discovered that the expectation of life of the American citizen exceeds by eleven years the expectation of the an- cient Italian. Another impostant factor which must be considered with the question of the improvement of mankind is that of stature. | average American of to-day is a taller man than the | average founder of this country. By way of com- | parison it may be remarked that the American is an :inch taller than the Englishman, while the English- | man in turn is an inch taller than the average Con- | tinental.” Concerning the oft-repeated criticism of Europeans fessor McGee said: “I would lay it down as a general rule that people on the average do what they are able to do, and that what they actually do is the safest and truest measure of what they can do. In Berlin the average man walks at the rate of two and a half miles per | hour; in London, three; in New York, three and a | quarter, and in Chicago, San Francisco and Denver | the latter pace is exceeded. The average length of | life in America exceeds the average in England, and | the proportion of our population that is confined | within asylums for the insane is considerably less | than in either England, France or Germany. In this connection T will say that I believe that the greater amount of labor that the American is able to stand is due in considerable part to a single cause. The American is the breakfast eater of the world. He in- variably commences the day with a good meal of strong, steam-producing food. Consequently work is no drag on him and he can surpass easily in results the European who commences the day with little but a roll and a cup of chocolate.” The judgment given in favor of a heavy breakfast may lead to some differences of opinion, but the general facts stated by the professor are beyond dis- | pute. The world is growing better and the improve- | ment has reached its highest mark in the west. The Californian rush is a sign not of nervous excitement but of abounding vigor. . Great Britain has found that the effort to take up the white man’s burden in South Africa is a good deal like trying to take up a redhot stove. that men | the capital of crime, grows | worked out carefully the expectation of life for the | It is a fact that the | that Americans work too hard and live too fast, Pro- | “WHEN WILL THE NEXT CENTURY BEGIN?” Some of the Extramordinary Situations That Very Much Discussed Question May Provoke. Evenv if John Bull should (8 reatk. PrefGria Peace m&ghl’n And while folks are makin B8 s T peee minds 13 lil\l'u fellow may frece L e e R I JRCIR SO O O O R e e e e e S Y It fascination may cauwse e floafing . populafion o neglect shelice P AP A O e et st an i S ol Sl A o 1 Qeivi ettt edededeieitiedstttdsd +drsbrsdotedopoteslitivisdsieivee —Chicago News. 2ORONONT 0 ORORONCO WILL THE LIGHTNING STRIKE THESE MEN? List of Names That May Figure in the New Charter Appointments to Be Made To-Morrow by Mayor Phelan, o 4 o 2| gl 920%8 | { The Call does not hold itself responsidle for the opimions published in this column, but presents them for whatever yalus they may have as communications of general interest Editor The Call: Here are the men who are likely to draw winning numbers in Mayor Phelan's lottery, drawing to take place to-morrow (Saturday): | 1 POLICE COMMISSION. ROBERT J. TOBIN. WILLIAM ]J. BiGGY. CHARLES L. PATTON. CHARLES BUNDSCHU CHIEF OF POLICE. THEO. F. BONNET. FIRE COMMISSION. JAMES McNAB. A. S. HALLIDIE. JASPER McDONALD. GEORGE T. BOWEN. DENNIS SULLIVAN (Chief of Department). THOMAS J. WALSH (Secretary). COMMISSION OF PUBLIC WORKS. . L. R. ELLERT. P. H. McCARTHY. MARSDEN MANSON. SENATOR SAMUEL BRAUNHART (Secretary). CHARLES S. HOLCOMB (City Engineer). CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. D. I. MAHONEY. EMIL POHLL H. N. CLEMENT, e . PHILIP J. FAY (Secretary). iy BOARD OF HEALTH. DR. A. P. O'BRIEN. DR. LOUIS BAZET. DR. GEORGE M. TERRILL. DR. JOHN GALLWEY. DR. J. M. WILLIAMSON. DR. THOMAS B. W. LELAND (Health Officer) BOARD OF EDUCATION. JAMES DENMAN. J. J. McDADE. P. A. BERGEROT. CECIL W. MARK. RICHARD P. DOOLAN (Secretary). PARK COMMISSIONERS. JOHN ROSENFELD. FRED W. ZEILE. ROLLA V. WATT. JOSEPH D. GRANT. RAPHAEL WEILL. . ELECTION COMMISSIONERS. ED I. SHEEHAN. P. M. WELLIN. JOHN H. GRADY. JOHN E. QUINN. JOSEPH C. GORMAN. REGISTRAR OF VOTERS. DANIEL J. GORDON. The foregoing list is not absolutely authentic, and is subject to changes at the last moment; but from observations taken from time to time, and from conversations had with divers persons supposed to know whereof they speak, it is candidly believed that the list presents a large number of winners. Many of them have already intimated that they do not see their way clear to refuse the honors about to be thrust upon them, and are perfectly willing to make a little sacrifice on behalf of the public, while others will no doubt be surprised at the good fortune which has befallen them. D. J. SLOANE. San Francisco, December 28, 1800. May Swallow the Whole Earth in TWQ MEN HOL| e. A man came to San Francisco a short time ago to raise money to get his $60,000 yacht out of pawn, so to speak, in Hono- lulu. He is a very gentlemanly appearing fellow and really owns the boat, but, gra- ®ious! what a history he has! He man- | | | | | | ORON CRO LOUR OO WORGROBOR CRORIRGRO LORO! | [ | R ONOR0 RORORORe | | HONORONO% OHORORORE HONORONON ONO KGO ARG HOKO BONORARONG BURONO% ORONONONG KONONORON OROROROING HOKONOLON 0% LOO% O%O BORO 833 ' K QUOROLONG . D UP A STREETCAR IN-SEATTLE A Number of Shots Are Exchanged and One of the Robbers Is Found 12 OROBORONT LORORANOLE QRO RO TR WONO 10! O, iy | and fired. At the | first shot the robber | on the front reeled from the car and fled to the woods. After the firing on the rear end ceased Bul- two The robbers secured, the second robber took to the woods. | lets passed through the clothing of | other passengers. nothing. Shortly after midnight the police found near the scene of the car hold-up the body of one of the two robbers. He had, been almost instantly killed by a bu from a passenger's pistol. The body still unidentified. —_—_————— Patrick Quinn Die: Patrick Quinn, a laborer, who was struck by a falling frame while working | on & building on the corner of First and Natoma streets last Wednesday, died yes- terday at St. Mary's Hospital from the effects of his injuries. An Inquest will be held. ot is —_— e Cream mixed candies In Japanese bas- kets, 2 Ib 5c., at Townsend's, 627 Market.* prasal.bsilidohortusiadbuidbued Townsend’'s famoys broken and mixed lcandxes-z 1bs. 25c. €27 Palace Hotel. ¢ | —_————— Time to send your Eastern friends | Townsend’s California Glace Fruits; 50c Ib | in fire-etched boxes. 627 Market; Palace.® | o ——y e | No walting at Townsend's; plenty of help. Thousands of packages of California Glace Frults and Candles packed all ready to hand out. €27 Market street. . —_———— Save money by buying your blank books, rinting and all office AHE?“QI for 1900 rom Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market st.® Speciai xuomu; supplied dally o business hcuses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Lom- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ —————— Billy Hamilton's New Clerk. Customs Collector Jackson yesterday ap- pointed G. B. EAgar, from the civil service eligible list, as clerk to Cashier Hamilton of the Custom-house, vice Alexander Du- mas Jones (colored). ——— “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by milllons of mothers for their children whils Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colle, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow’'s Soothing Syrup, ¢ a bottle, —_————— Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibiled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experfenced | excursion conductors accompany these excur- | sicns to look after the welfare of passengers, To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, | Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal | and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louls | every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and | Friday. Ticket office. 825 Market stroet. | —_—— | | HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 0 by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer stay, $3 00 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —_————— The Fastest Train Across the Conti. | nent. | The California Limited, Santa Fe Route. Con. | necting train leaves § p. Monday, Wednes- day, Friday and Satur Finest equipped | train and best track of line to the East, 1 Tickat office, 628 Market street 3 —————— . A curious feature of cyeling, seems to be confined pl’ntlhnlf} { northern midlands of Great the hill-climbing competition. walch to the Britain, is ADVERTISEMENTS. - Wasting Are you nervous, restless, | pale and easily tired? Per- haps the scales can tell you why. If your weight: is below your average, that | explains it. | Scott’s Emulsion ica fat- aged to have the yacht released and is now cruising in the South Seas under very unique conditions. Some say he is the “Prince of Confidence Men.” Read about him in next Sunday’s Call and then draw your own conclusions. Sanders—That's a anti-imperialism the running. Brennan—How so? “‘Every soldier sent to the Philippines who returns comes k an anti-expan- sionist.”"—-Life. splendid school of ar Department is | 11 o'clock to-night. There were eight pas- You soon begin to gain and ysu keep on gaining long sfter you stop taking it. For all wasting diseases, in both young and old, it is the one standard remedy. oW NE e, Yo = SR | producing food. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 2%8.—Two mask- | ed men held up a Ballard-street car at sengers aboard and a regular fusillade of shots was fired. One of the passengers named Plimpton inside the car opened fire on the highwayman entering the car from the rear and three shots were returned. One broke Plimpton's arm and another entered his breast. “Al hnnncermlt:mflu on the front end le car which was out, *Lookout, I am flh’}'ltb:o‘ &:rd'?hemefled