The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1900, Page 6

A FIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE. ECRETARY FRED W. EATON of the Sun- set Telephone and Telegraph Company is re- rted in the Examir of Thursday to have atement concerning certain finan- In the course of the state- “There are other con- [ 10, 1900 | : | given th: JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor paper a s cial plans of the company. ment he is quoted as sayi P! BLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F.| tingencies to be met, for which we must be prepared, itions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | Telcphone Haln 1008 among them the tax of fifty cents a quarter just im- TORIAL ROONS....217 to 221 Stevemson St.| posed by the 1 Francisco Supervisors. We have Telephone Main 1874, 2 4 i s - | 20,000 tel n operation in San Francisco, Ueltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. AR yurden to us of $40,000 a e < an additional burden t 40, Terms by Mail. Inciuding Postage: um we cannot afford to pay and maintain our neluding Sunday). one yenar. . (ncluding Sunday), 6 months iuding Sunday), 3 months Our assessment has been raised to the license besides. We present rates limit and we are paying a heavy Single Month 2 'S 3 6 1 TADAY CALL Ope Year..... re convinced the tax is illegal and intend to fight it EEKLY CALL One Year....... eeeen L : ‘1 ed 1 Al postmasters are authorized to recelve in the courts. If beaten we shall be compelled to do subscriptions. like other corporations and put it in the bill. How “ample copies will be forwarded when reguested our patrons will relish an increase of fiitcen cents a GARLAND on their bills we cannot foretell, but I suppose OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway mor; C. GEORGE KROGNESS, rager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. " YORK CORRI ~ | there will be some lively kicking.” ; that report to be true, the people have and The Call comes forward at It is to be determined whether PONDENT: ..Herald Square t be once to take it up. NEW LUKENS YORK REPRESENTATI J PERRY R. .29 Tribune Building < California WASHINGTON (D. C. E..Wellington Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. or a master of the law. If it be a creature of the law taxe: If will be something above the law, and the only way to deal with it then will be to revoke its charter and establish telephones as a public utility, as has been BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Haves, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open until Larkin, open until Mission, open watil 10 it can shirk the burden of taxation, then it 1941 o'clock 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open til 9 o'cloc 109G Valencia, open until 9 | done elsewhere. ‘lock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. : AW roer Twenty-second and Kentackr, By the cunning of the astute Mr. Pillsbury, attor- | b pre i1 9 o c % e S | ney for the corporation, the new charter was drawn AMUSEMENTS. from the supervision of the municipal authorities. It r's Eye.” e—""Aladdin Jr.” is the consciousness of that exemption which em- e boldens the corporation to announce an intention to ugglers of Badayer.” T 7 z f fe. shift its taxes upon the public by increasing the al- : It is also that and | ready exorbitant charges for service. remark eater—Vaudeville every afternoon and | which leads the secretary to merrily Mason and E y result in some lively streets—Spectalties. | mockingly that the shifting m: | kicking. The recourse of the people is the State Legislature. That body has a right to supervise corporations. It at once for the coming contest. In every district-all | candidates this fall for the Senate or for the Assem- 1 matter to set aside the express new charter m t 1 Phelar bly should be required to give specific pledges to vote at the next meeting of the Legislature for a bill pro- fre has obsoleted el viding an efficient and comprehensive system of tele- on. Such a measure will not be a nov: ation. The Massachusetts Legislature scussing this winter a system of State t hones, and in other States the same ler consideration. company is one that cannot be compromised. Either corporations are to be permitted to shirk taxes or y be set aside. I the telephone they are to be required to pay them e line or company be permitted to make a mockery of the or pro- w, other corporations will soon follow the example. The Call enters upon it with a de- ch one of his of ;51(- The fight is on. part punit termination to win. instrument £ s If a victory for the people can- Mr. Phelan dwelt with fervor essity of putting the charter s, all a It may take d | a year, or two years, or even more, but in the end fight will go on until another is elected. He was its the law will triumph. That triumph, moreover, will ds ma vl d not be long dela ject the charter orcement in forcing their rights. The question should be made repose whi and if that be done the “lively kicking” that makes Mr. tax-shirking telephone company. he Mayor has suspended now Eaton tter of mpor rished treasury adme € 5 of a leakage in the The real seriousness of the British situation in I rned ov > John | South Africa has never been more apparent than now. P. D € ce as a icer | It is clearly shown by the promptness with which the he publi He | Government has acceded to the request of its South H ed le n ks the | African Commissioner, Sir Alfred Milner, for the as- set this asi sistance of a lawyer. le and overv " |@ “PEOPLE’'S PALACE” IN PARIS. 1; W 8 MOVEMENT has been started in Paris to es- my and | { tablish a * '\ ’eople’s Palace” or university on a scale far in excess of anything yet attempted. - “"Iwrv’ According to the announcement there are to be or- v e oo Iver | ganized under one roof libraries, reading and class : od E i \;‘\r(I:\ * rooms, museums, gymnasiums, swimming baths, lec- | i oo, I y cemrnh y ture halls, chemical laboratories, a temperance res- t t ayor repeals the charter itself in | .\ ant, consultation rooms where advice and counsel e Eistende eguard the | 1 be given by competent authorities on legal, med- s » 1 the sacks to save trouble ical and commercial questions, and a theater, where there will be presented a drama free from all objec- features. devised by John P. Dunn s too much trouble footste; and bec parts of the charter is soon be as tatt tionable The promoters of the project are not millionaires dy Burdett Coutts, who founded the People’s st London, neither is it to be a munici er e in i pal enterprise like the People’s Palace in Glasgow, e S o .hr'n Sk 1 It is to be established by a co-operative society known . | as the “Union pour I morale.” In their uppose there is no re of All tha dy for wsidering . ction ng clause and a calf binding to be a whole code. ; o e prospectus they say: “We want truth, beauty, mor- If repor the Federal officers of quarantine | 1ty for all. We would fain sce the people partici- s ought to receive an indefinite | PAte in that higher good which may be regarded as nd & recom | the patrimony of the human race. Our society asso- ation to suppress | aving entertained reception on board a st ciates itself with no especial creed, religious, political or philosophic. We do not wish to make partisang; ¢ M 81 on 1he contiins 4 nolie: Deingibg dieceat Tainde | gether in the quest of truth and beauty.” C Is enjoy no other di tion they While the Parisians are thus entering with hope have the n of knowing to a certainty that | upon this movement for opening a palace of beauty will be received with royal | and truth to the people, it is noted in Great Britain fr dispatches show one commander | that similar enterprises undertaken there have failed. be tite as severely for obeying orders | [he great institution in London has been gradually 2 eying them, forced away from the original intention of the 2 4 founder. A recent report says it has never become a 1o has escaped from Luzon and is in 3 ; . social center in the ind of London. There are - the Telephone Company is a creature of the law of | and subject to statutes, it will have to pay | | in such a way as to exempt the telephone company | therefore becomes the duty of all citizens to prepare | that has been raised by the telephone | not be gained at the coming Legislature, then the | red if the people be resolute in en- | one of the vital State issues of the campaign this fall, | smile will be on the side of the | 3 tment Seems 10 think, he | g, er shows, art collections and industrial exhibi- € « nning 2 gold medal at . . . g " sbtedly has the best ran. | 5O but the People’s Palace uwn_n..hly impresses s iy 6 | visitors as a dull place where there is little enteriain- i h ment for the masses. The children of tradespeople e | are drawn into the class-rooms, and there is a con- e strong test an Oroville will | stant development of the educational work, but the « ht to be s guarantee of | exhibitions and concerts have not attracted the char- e ence he might choose to give, | 2cteristic workers and idlers of the East End. - i ' Zven more complete appeéars to be the failure of ¢ wwian beast-man of Ohio who sold his { the famous People’s Palace established by the mu- danghters to pay the debt incurred to bring them to | nicipality of Glasgow. That institution contained a liscriminate he red rubber stamp department of the British a is again working perfectly. eral Buller “regrets to report, etc., etc.,” to the end of the chapter. mmigration. in South cramento correspondents announced Thursday that Governor Gage had locked horns with the Leg- isizture. Goodness gracious! How that calf has grown! is as afforded Americans another object | mseum, a picture gallery, a promenade concert hall, | a conservatory, a library and a lecture-room. forms a warm, brilliantly lighted place of resort to which the public is admitted without charge, but while the class-rooms have been well patronized. it has never been popular as a place of recreation. i When it was first opened large crowds attended the | erowd diminished, and it is now said that while the | Palace belongs to the people of Glasgow and they are | duly proud of it as something they have done for It | 1conccnm but as soon as the noveity wore off the | themselves, yet they take no interest in it as a pleas- ure resort, and almost invariably go somewherge else when they wish amusement. Perhaps the Parisians may make something more out.of their enterprise than the English or the Scotch. They are more sociable people and have more delight in music and art. The outlook, how- ever, is not bright for the movement. When people go out in search of recreation they are hardly like_‘y to resort to a place whose primary object is not that of amusing but of enlightening and elevating them. D TROPICAL L@BOR. l Call advised this when the annexation of Hawaii was proposed, but the newspaper supporters of that measure in this country and Hawaii were averse to the consideration of facts, and preferred to sub- stitute fancy and airy speculation for the cold and sober reality. We proved then that the commercial prosperity of the islands depended upon the use of Asiatic coolie labor there. But to this was opposed a fairy tale about the wide opportunity offered to American white labor. So far there is not the record of a single American white laborer migrating to the islands and taking up the plantation labor which is the sole producer of the wealth of the country. i At the beginning of this year there were 61,000 | Asiatic coolie laborers in the islands, and still they come. The opening of new sugar lands calls for a greater supply, and it is at hand, under contract and with a penal obligation. 5 The Honolulu Independent of January 20 publishes the arrivals up to that date in the current year as fol- lows: “January 8, per S.'S. China, 667 coolies; Janu- | ary 9, per S. S. Lady Joicey, 707; January 12, per S. S | Doric, 700; January 15, per S. S. Doyo Maruy, 726; | January 17, per S. S. Yorohime, 700.” This is a total importation between the 8th 17th of last month of 33500 coolies, raising the total | | | in the islands to 64,500 Asiatics of that class. There | are in all the islands a total of only 3000 Americans, | | T does no harm to look facts in the face. The and and these are of the land-owning, professional, cap- italist and higher business class. We think no further evidence is needed to prove the | kind of Jabor that must be used and depended upon for productive labor in the tropics. Of all our tropi- cal possessions Hawaii has the most clement climate. It has neither the heat nor the moisture of the West Indies and the Philippines. Yet its physical condi- tions effectually bar out white labor, and therefore make white wages impossible. These coolies get the maximum of 50 cents a day while they work, and nothing when they are idle through illness or other causes. They are worked in gangs under overseers, and with all the incidents that follow the employment of the taskmaster. The planters who use this coolie labor ask for free access to our markets for its produce. That produce comes into direct competition in our markets with the product of free American labor, which in the same occupations receives on the average an excess of $2 | per day. Every pound of coolie product admitted to market free displaces a pound of the | product of free labor and yields to the Gov- ernment no revenue. When the product of labor is displaced, the labor itself is dis- placed. Therefore the admission of the product of coolie labor is practically the displacement of Ameri- can by Asiatic labor. If we continue to admit the | product of coolie labor free we are losing wages for our own labor and at the same time are losing rev- enue to the Government. This Government has a | long candle, but the longest is finally used up by burn- ing it at both ends. The employer of American labor is put at a disadvantage, which he must make good by reducing the wages of his white labor or by put- | ing the product of coolie labor on a revenue equality. It is easily seen that the employer of coolie labor at coolie wages in the tropics, and under physical conditions which bring him greater profit-through the greater productiveness of the tropical soil, enjo; a great advantage, which does not need to be in- c-eased by giving him also free entry to our mar- kets. The home employer, producer and laborer are cntitled to an equalization of advantages, and there are y two ways to secure it. ither our labor laws and Asiatic exclusion policy must be extended to Hawaii and the Spanish islands, making the em- ployment of coolie and other contract labor impos- sible there as here, or the product of such labor must | pay a tariff for the privilege of coming into our mar- ket. In either case American labor and American employers will be protected, and the coalie labor and its employers will be compelled to accept equality with us. If there be any other way in which to main- tain our scale of wages and standard of life against | tropical production and servile labor will pleased to hear of it. We know of no reasonable objection that the Hawaiian employer can make to this proposition. If he pay American wages to free labor let him have free access to our markets, for that equalizes his condition with ours. If he employ coolie labor at Asiatic wages, let him pay duty on its product coming here for a market. The principles of our constitution are fixed in the requirement of equal- ity under the government created by that instrument. It was the principle of equality that-abolished slavery iere. The existence of free and chattel labor under the same constitution and Government was incom- pat'tle with equality. When Seward and Lincoln de- | clared the irrepressible conflict between free and slave labor, and said that the whole Union must become all free or all slave, for a house divided agains- itself could not stand. they were demanding just what we demand now. If it be wrong now it was wrong when the founders of the Republican party inscribed it on their banners. We wait for some one to show that it is wrong, for until that is done we shall not cease to insist that it is right, in the faith that only what is right will survive our ot we The occidental nations scem determined that the educational future of China shall not be neglected in one regard at least. If the signs of the times point | to anything they indicate that the Orientals shall be | taught the fine art of thievery on a large scale. e S The Boers have received assistance from an unex- pected source. Tod Sloan and Lord Beresford have quarreled since Beresford insisted upon looking upon Sloan as a servant. Sloan says he has changed his opinion of the British. Eastern manufacturers of baby carriages have | formed a trust and have sent prices booming. Can it be possible that the big tradesmen believed that Roh erts was to receive countenance from the House of Representatives? | President David Starr Jordan is entitled to the palm in discussing the South African situation. In a lecture entitled the “Feelings of Animals” he says that the Boers are unquestionably entitled to a right to live. — French political life seems to have settled into a stagnation thatfghreatens the life of the nation. The recent elections” passed over without even as much 2¢ threat of bloodshed. be | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1900 THE MAN WITH THE SPADE. L e o ol o de o B B e T o I S General D A e S Sn B At ek g P . dndn s ek b o R e e e e e e S I e e S R L e L S BISMARCKLS PROPHECY. + L O R O R e S A s e S ol S S o o o L J Sir Redvers Buller, V. C, G. C. B. —Chicago Chronicle. ADAILY HINT FROM PARIS, + @ | A as as B e e ] | | | . ® ¥ > t ! . 2 2 04 . 3 ¥ k3 Reisieiesieiedeie® GUIPURE AND VELVET DRESS. This indoor costume is made with a coat of gulpure and chenille, beaeath velvet dress of a very soft texture. The upper part is draped to form a yoke, and across it are two bands of black velvet on the cross. WILL COME IN PAPER DRESS Eillinwood Ball and Morgan Lunch to Take Place on Valentine’s Day. Society will have a busy time trying to | keep up with all the functions arranged | for St. Valentine’s day by the swell set. The most important affairs planned for that day are the Morgan lunch, the Ellin- wood “fancy paper dress’” party and the O’'Kane tea. Miss Therese Morgan is a delightful hostess, and all the affairs she presides at are usually characterized by some new and charming features. That her luncheon will be a success goes without saying. The “funcy baper dress” - party for which Miss Charlotte Ellinwood has sent out about 150 invitations promises to be quite the most original affair ever given in this city. All the guests will be attired in paper costume. Ladies and gentlemen as well are vieing with one another to ex- el In point of beauty and originality of costume. The majority of the ladies will wear costumes similar to those that have made the “baby parties” so successful, Another delightful function on St. Val- entine’s day Is the tea to be given by Mrs. W. D. O'Kane at her home on Broadway in honor of Mrs. Duperu and Miss Feld- man. There will be a large number of charming girls In the receiving party, and they will be joined in the evening by an equal number of gentlemen, who alto- gether will make up a dinner party. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. G. W, Dwinnell of Montague is at the Grand. Captain George C. Reiter, U. 8. N, Is at the Occidental. Judge Stanton L. Carter of Fresno is | registered at the Lick. 8. L. Cory, one of the leading attorneys of Fresno, it at the Lick. Professor W. N, Dudley of Stanford is a guest at the Occidental. Thomas Flint Jr. is registered at the Palace from his home In Ban Juan. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Drysdale are at the Paluce from Sherbrooke, Canada. Dr. and Mrs, Thomas Flint are at the Palaece from their home In San Juan. Charles Francee, Mayor of Salinas, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. 1. R. Holmes, a merchant of Liverpool, Englond, In registered for a few days at the Oceldental ©O. McHonry, the Modesto banker and enpitalist, Is nmong the recent arrivals at tha Oceldental. J. B. Van Holy, a traveler from Paris, is n guest at the Palace, where he ar- rived last evening. Francis Gedger, United States Consul at Panama, has come up to this city on a short vacation, and is staying at the Ocel- dental. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hall of Visalla are staying at the Lick. Mr. Hall is heavily interested in the oil lands of the southern part of the State. o Charles .« ee, general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific, and A. D. Charlton, assistant general passenger agent of the 4same road, are registered at the Oceiden- R e L o | which is a Parma violet colored princess | | cific Company i | San Francisco @490+ 06—+ 0 d—pe@ |t2l. They are in the city on business con- nected with their official positions. H. E. Huntington of the Southern Pa- expected to return in a few days from New York, where he has been for some time past in consultation | with his uncle on matters pertaining to the management of the road. Among those who arrived yesterday on the Alameda and went to the Palace is Lord Taibot de Malahide, who, accom- panied by his son, Hon. James Talbot, has been making a tour of the world and is now on his way home to his estate, Howth Head, near Dublin. B — e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—L. W. Haviland and C. H. Loring of San Franeisco are at the Manhattan; Thomas W. Schenk of Los Angeles is at the Empire. e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Feb. .—G. R. Mills of is at the Shoreham; T. Masac of Los Angeles is at the St. James W. J. McCrae and wife of San Francisc are at the Ral h. —————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. JANITORS AND JANITRESSES—B., City. This department has been informed that janitors and janitresses in the school department will not have to undergo civil service examination. If you desire to con- tribute anything for the relief of British soldiers wounded in the Transvaal you can leave your contribution at the office of the British Consulate on Battery street, near Washington. EXAMINATIONS—J. D. C,, City. Until the Civil Service Commission announces its rules it is impossible to inform you if a person who failed in an examination for the Tax Collector's office could undergo examination for another office without SOLDIERS IN THE TRANSVAAL— | | Subscriber, City. waiting a stated time. Watch the local columns of The Call and there you will discover what the commission is doing. Ice cream at Townsend's, 735 Market st.® Oyster cocktails—Townsend’s, 735 Mrkt.* ———————— March styles Standard Patterns. Do- mestic office, 1021 Market street. L —_——————— Special Information suppiled dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_—————————— W. 8. Townsend, temporarily located at 735 Market street, will open to-day at 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building, with a large stock of California glace fruits and choice candles; will also continue at 7% Market street until March 1. . pbt gt o s I St. Mary’s Park Fund. The Supervisors' Judiciary and Finance Committeeés, sitting in jolnt session, yes-- terday decided to refer the subject of St. Mary's Park appropriation to the City At- torney for his opinion as to the legal status thereof. ———— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- slons to look after the welfars of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto eyery Wednesday. To St. Louts every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 428 Market street. prosetorricy B dmsse it By adding 20 drops of Dr. Slegert's Angosturs Bitters to every polluted water are go i s oo WA The Fastest Train Across the Con- tinent. : The California Limited, Santa ¥e Route. Connecting trains leave at §p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped traln and best track of any line to the East. Ticket office, 28 Market street. The Life Story of Carlos Ezeta, Revolutionist. Styles for the Well-Dressed Man. St. Valentine’s Day. Full-Page Drawing by CAHILL. Unique Occupation of a San Fran- cisco Society Man. How Typhoons and Earthquakes Are Predicted. The Latest Fashions in Parasols. The Reluctant Voyagers. How St. Valentine’s Day Originated. THE SUNDAY CALLS MAGAZINE SECTION IS THE STANDARD OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ART.X X X